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    The Polar Music Prize is a Swedish international award founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, best known as the manager of the Swedish band ABBA, with a donation...
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    Polar Music is a Swedish record company founded in 1963 by Stig Anderson and his friend Bengt Bernhag. The first act that Polar Music signed was the Hootenanny...
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    Max Martin (category Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers)
    "Eyes Closed" from his fifth studio album, −. When accepting the Polar Music Prize, Martin highlighted ABBA, Kiss, Prince and Lasse Holm as inspirations...
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  • MOBO Awards Japan Record Awards Seoul Music Awards Heat Latin Music Awards Grammis Polar Music Prize Los 40 Music Awards Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards...
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    Evelyn Glennie (category Fellows of the Royal Academy of Music)
    percussionist. She was selected as one of the two laureates for the Polar Music Prize of 2015. Glennie was born in Methlick, Aberdeenshire in Scotland....
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    Grandmaster Flash (category Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers)
    In 2019 he became the first hip hop artist to be honoured with the Polar Music Prize. On May 21, 2022, he acquired an honorary doctorate in Fine Arts from...
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    Harris: IBMA". International Bluegrass Music Association. Retrieved 6 August 2023. "Emmylou Harris". Polar Music Prize. Retrieved 3 August 2023. "Country...
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    father of the singer Björk. At the awards ceremony where Björk won the Polar Music Prize in 2010, Guðmundur noted, "her musical talent came even before she...
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    Stig Anderson (category Swedish music managers)
    12 September 1997) was a Swedish music manager, lyricist and music publisher. He was the co-founder of Polar Music, and is best known for managing the...
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  • music. African music American music Asian music Australian music British music Canadian music Caribbean music Chinese music Czech music Danish music European...
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    Wayne Shorter (category Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers)
    contender for greatest living improviser". In 2017, he was awarded the Polar Music Prize. Wayne Shorter was born in Newark, New Jersey; the son of Louise and...
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    Patti Smith (category MusicBrainz artist same as Wikidata)
    Greatest Artists of All Time, published in 2010, and was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2011. Smith was born on December 30, 1946, at Grant Hospital in...
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  • Fame. 25 October 2019. Retrieved December 18, 2021. "Diane Warren". Polar Music Prize. Archived from the original on 23 October 2021. Retrieved 11 February...
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    original on 2021-02-10. Retrieved 2021-10-24. "Polar Music Prize | the Laureates of the Polar Music Prize 2018 are". Archived from the original on 2018-02-14...
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    Sting (musician) (category Universal Music Group artists)
    Palace for services to music. He was made a Kennedy Center Honoree at the White House in 2014 and was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2017. In May 2023...
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    Nile Rodgers (category Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers)
    and by championing innovative youth voices." In March, he was named Polar Music Prize Laureate, together with Esa-Pekka Salonen. During the same year, Rodgers...
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  • List of awards and nominations received by Sting (category British music-related lists)
    November 7, 2011, via the Twitter hashtag #StingUCB. He received the Polar Music Prize in 2017. In the same year, Sting received the Golden Plate Award of...
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    nomination under the category of the "Best Music DVD" for The Song Remains the Same. The Polar Music Prize was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson. Led Zeppelin...
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  • Sangaré. Fields Medal Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Nevanlinna Prize Nobel Prize Polar Music Prize Right Livelihood Award...
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    Tobias Forge (category Fictional characters invented for recorded music)
    Sweden during a ceremony on 14 June 2018 honoring Metallica with the Polar Music Prize. Cardinal Copia also makes a featured appearance on the song "I'm...
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    Youssou N'Dour (category MTV Europe Music Award winners)
    honorary doctoral degree in music from Yale University. In 2013, N'Dour won a share of Sweden's $150,000 Polar music prize for promoting understanding...
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    two European Film Awards, the Golden Lion Honorary Award and the Polar Music Prize in 2010. Morricone has influenced many artists from film scoring to...
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    Peter Gabriel discography (category Rock music discographies)
    Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2007, and the Polar Music Prize in 2009. AllMusic has described Gabriel as "one of rock's most ambitious, innovative...
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    Ray Charles (category Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers)
    received the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts, and the Polar Music Prize. He was one of the inaugural inductees at the Rock and Roll Hall of...
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    Stockholm Concert Hall (category Nobel Prize)
    Orchestra. It is also where the awarding ceremonies for the Nobel Prize and the Polar Music Prize are held annually. The interior includes work by Ewald Dahlskog...
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    including three UK Music Video Awards. In 2010, she received the Polar Music Prize, bestowed from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, an honor considered...
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    Journey, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen and More". "Bruce Springsteen". Polar Music Prize. Archived from the original on January 3, 2014. Retrieved June 21...
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    Peter Gabriel (category BT Digital Music Awards winners)
    Achievement, and the Polar Music Prize. He was made a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his "influence on generations of music makers". In recognition...
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    B. B. King (category Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers)
    "B.B. King: Laureate of the Polar Music Prize 2004". Polar Music Prize. Retrieved May 15, 2015. "B.B. King Gives His Prized Electric Guitar 'Lucille' to...
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  • also 'Prizes sponsored by the Nobel Foundation' above. Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (1972) Polar Music Prize (1989) Gramophone Classical Music Awards...
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