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...tinged rap of Rio is dueling for prominence with the harder- edged street anthems of Sao Paulo, hypercharged groups like Sons of the Ghetto decry the injustices of the social system. The most popular song is the work of an 18-year-old middle-class kid who calls himself Gabriel the Thinker. Only days after its release, the piece was the most requested number on a local radio station. Last month the government forced the station to take it off the air. Gabriel's rap is called I'm Happy (I Killed the President), a fantasy in which he describes...
PERFORMER: PETER GABRIEL...
...YEARS BETWEEN STUDIO ALbums is an eternity in pop music. This is especially true for fans of Peter Gabriel, the 42-year-old British rock singer, composer, producer and avid human-rights activist. Gabriel's last album, So, was progressive, musically and lyrically; his latest, Us, is even more compelling...
...Gabriel has hardly been idle since So was released. In 1988 he joined Sting and Tracy Chapman on an Amnesty International tour. Two years ago, he created ^ the Real World record label to provide a vehicle for Third World musicians (some of whom appear on Us) and later composed the score for Martin Scorsese's film The Last Temptation of Christ. With the Reebok Foundation, he started the Witness program, which supplies video cameras to human rights groups in the hope that they will record violations...
...Despite Gabriel's heightened social awareness, his new album is not devoted to political, economic and social matters, but mainly to the breakups of his marriage and a postmarriage romance. With his band and guest musicians from such countries as Senegal, Turkey and Armenia creating a dense sonic atmosphere and incorporating Western and non-Western rhythms, he turns inward, examining through cerebral lyrics his behavior in relationships...