With a career that spans more than 30 years, Buffett is a Regional Emmy Award winner, New York Times best-selling author and co-chair of the NoVo Foundation.

His big break came when a neighbor introduced him to his son-in-law who needed ad tunes for a newly conceived station, MTV.

In 1996, Buffett produced Star of Wonder, a Christmas CD featuring Celtic harpist Kim Robertson and arranger Eric Segnitz.

In 1998, he entered the pop music realm with the release of Comet9's "Like Mercury" on Milwaukee-based independent label Don't Records, with Buffett producing, writing and playing multi-instrumentalist.

Co-writer and guitarist Tom Nelson and vocalist Susan Zielke completed the studio trio, with Citizen King members D. J. Brooks and Malcolm Michiles guesting on drums and turntables, respectively.

In 1999, Buffett's score for the documentary Wisconsin: An American Portrait won a Chicago / Midwest Emmy Award for Best Soundtrack.

[5] Also in 1999, Buffett's Spirit – A Journey in Dance Drums and Song aired on PBS as a highly successful pledge break special.

Combining modern and American Indian dancers with Director and Choreographer Wayne Cilento, Spirit went on to tour through the end of 1999.

In 2004, Buffett worked with Jody Ripplinger and Frank Anderson to create Spirit –The Seventh Fire; an updated version of his earlier show.

One Akon collaboration, titled “Blood Into Gold,” debuted at a special event at the UN General Assembly in March 2009 that focused on human trafficking.

Buffett continues to visit numerous university campuses, community foundations and other organizations using his own life story and experiences as illustration.

Buffett and his wife co-chair the NoVo Foundation, an organization that directs millions each year to left-of-center groups advocating for abortion, LGBT interests, and left-wing economics[20] In a 2013 New York Times op-ed and radio podcast, The Charitable-Industrial Complex, Peter Buffett used the terms "philanthropic colonialism" and "conscience laundering," and described his insights into "searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left" rather than systemic change.