Real World Records is a record label started in 1989 by Peter Gabriel to help promote world music. Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950 in Chobham, Surrey, England) is an English Musician and Songwriter. The term world music includes Traditional music (sometimes called Folk music or roots music of any culture that are created and played by indigenous musicians

The label which grew up alongside the success of the WOMAD festivals and Peter Gabriel's exploration of music from other cultures, and helped push world music into the general publics consciousness during the 90s. Many of the label's releases are recorded at Real World Studios. Real World Studios is the high-tech recording studio in Box Wiltshire, associated with the Real World Records Ltd

Notable artists released on Real World records include:

• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• The Blind Boys of Alabama
• Afro Celt Sound System
• Sheila Chandra
• Geoffrey Oryema
• Papa Wemba

See also

• List of record labels

External links

• Real World Records official website
• Real World Remixed

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ( نصرت فتح على خاں, born October 13 1948, died August 16, 1997) was a Pakistani The Blind Boys of Alabama are a gospel group from Alabama that first formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1939. The Afro Celt Sound System is a musical group which fuses modern dance rhythms ( Trip-hop, techno, etc Sheila Chandra (b March 14, 1965) is an English pop singer of Indian descent Geoffrey Oryema (born April 16, 1953) is an internationally renowned Ugandan musician Papa Wemba was born Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Thabani Kikumba in 1949 in Lubefu ( Kasai - DR Congo) This is a list of notable Record labels Due to the large number of entries the list has been divided by the first character of the label's name See also

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