Nile Rodgers and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen have been chosen as the recipients of the 2024 Polar Music Prize. The Chic legend and the renowned Finnish conductor will receive prize money of one ...

The Polar Music Prize was founded in 1989 by Stig ”Stikkan” Anderson, the man perhaps best known as the ‘fifth member of ABBA’, being their publisher, lyricist and manager, who played a ...

Hannigan, 54, said: “I am deeply moved and humbled to receive this year’s Polar Music Prize. “Thank you so much for including me among this incredible and inspiring group of laureates.” ...

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Polar Music Prize will be presented to the laureates in the presence of the Swedish Royal Family. Each laureate will receive a monetary prize of 1 million Swedish Krona (about $94,000).

Nile Rodgers, American songwriter and co-founder of the 1970s influential disco band Chic and esteemed Finnish classical music composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen have won the 2024 Polar ...

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The Polar Music Prize, now in its 26th year, was founded by late Abba manager Stig Anderson and is typically shared by a pop artist and a classical musician.

The Polar Music Prize and Polar Talks bring people together. I love seeing the connections made, the joy of perhaps meeting a hero, the surprise that often the public personae is nothing like the ...

Marie Ledin, managing director of the Polar Music Prize, commented: “In Nile Rodgers, we honour a ground-breaking pioneer whose legacy spans his work as co-founder of CHIC and as record producer ...