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b'Grammy winner Tony Banks is the co-founder and keyboardist of Genesis, which helped define prog rock in the \\u201870s with lead singer Peter Gabriel and emerged as a pop powerhouse in the \\u201880s after drummer Phil Collins took over the lead vocalist role. Banks and Mike Rutherford were the only two musicians who were members of the band throughout Genesis\\u2019 entire history from the late 1960s through the early 2000s. He is a co-writer of Genesis classics, including \\u201cThe Knife,\\u201d \\u201cThe Musical Box,\\u201d \\u201cSupper\\u2019s Ready,\\u201d \\u201cFirth of Fifth,\\u201d \\u201cFollow You Follow Me,\\u201d \\u201cNo Reply at All,\\u201d \\u201cThat\\u2019s All,\\u201d \\u201cInvisible Touch,\\u201d \\u201cThrowing it All Away,\\u201d \\u201cLand of Confusion,\\u201d \\u201cTonight Tonight Tonight,\\u201d \\u201cIn Too Deep,\\u201d \\u201cNo Son of Mine,\\u201d \\u201cI Can\\u2019t Dance,\\u201d and \\u201cHold On My Heart.\\u201d \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 In addition to releasing five solo albums, Banks began scoring films in the late 1970s, including a British horror movie called The Shout, a science fiction film entitled Starship, and Quicksilver, staring Kevin Bacon. It was his work on the Faye Dunaway film The Wicked Lady that first exposed Banks to working with an orchestra, reigniting his long time love for classical music. In 2004 he released Seven: A Suite for Orchestra, which featured the London Philharmonic and marked the start of a series of classical albums. The most recent is simply titled Five. \\xa0 As a member of Genesis, Banks has sold over 21 million albums in the US alone. He received a Prog God Award at the Progressive Music Awards in 2015, and was named among MusicRadar\\u2019s \\u201cgreatest keyboard players of all time\\u201d in 2011. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside Genesis bandmates Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Steve Hackett, and Mike Rutherford in 2010.'