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These are the three winners of this year’s off-the-scale prestigious Polar Music Awards. And – thanks to the unique nature of the prize – they're also each now 1 million krona better off.
Marie Ledin, managing director of the Polar Music Prize, expressed immense privilege in announcing the 2025 laureates, ...
Queen will be bestowed with the Polar Music Prize for 2025. The rock icons - behind mega-hits including 'Bohemian Rhapsody' 'We Are The Champions', 'We Will Rock You' and 'Under Pressure' - will ...
British rock royalty Queen, American jazz great Herbie Hancock and Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan are the 2025 recipients of the Polar Music Prize. The ceremony will be held on ...
STOCKHOLM, March 18 (Reuters) - British rock band Queen, American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock and Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan were awarded the 2025 Polar Music Prize on Tuesday.
Soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan of Nova Scotia was named one of three recipients of music's Polar Prize on Tuesday, along with Herbie Hancock and Queen. The committee for the Sweden-based ...
Barbara Hannigan, the trailblazing soprano and conductor who's already won many prestigious accolades, is now only the second Canadian to receive the Polar Music Prize. Heidi Petracek explains how ...
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock has said he is “thrilled, surprised and humbled” after being awarded the Polar Music Prize. The 84-year-old received the gong, which celebrates the power and ...
Credit: Polar Music Prize/Marco Borggreve Odds are you’ve heard of Queen and Herbie Hancock and – if you’re partial to contemporary classic music – chances are you’re up to speed with ...
As soon-to-be Polar Music Prize recipients, Queen, Hancock, and Hannigan join the likes of Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Chuck Berry, Ennio Morricone, Led Zeppelin, Patti Smith ...