Gilbert Gabriel

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Gilbert Gabriel
Birth name	Gilbert Alexander Gabriel
Born	(1956-11-16) 16 November 1956 (age 68)
Occupations	Songwriter, film composer, producer, lecturer
Formerly of	The Dream Academy
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Gilbert Alexander Gabriel (born 16 November 1956) is a songwriter, film composer, producer and lecturer. He studied piano and clarinet at Dartington College of Arts and Goldsmiths before forming the British folk rock trio The Dream Academy, whose 1985 single "Life in a Northern Town" was a global hit, reaching the top ten of the charts in Australia and the United States.^[1]

Since then he has been writing and producing music for film and television in the United Kingdom and Poland. He has also lectured on 'film and the soundtrack' in Cambridge as well as at Liverpool and Cardiff universities.^[1]

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