Polar Music Prize

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The Polar Music Prize is an international music prize and awarded to individuals, groups or institutions in recognition of exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music. The prize was founded in 1989 with an endowment from publisher, lyricist and manager of the Swedish pop music group ABBA, Stig “Stikkan” Anderson, and was named after Anderson's Polar Music recording label.

The Polar is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, with annual award ceremonies held in Stockholm each May, where the prize is presented to each laureate by HM Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. The prize purse is SEK1 million (ca. GB£85,000; US$169,000).

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2008 - Renée Fleming and Pink Floyd
2007 - Sonny Rollins and Steve Reich
2006 - Led Zeppelin and Valery Gergiev
2005 - Gilberto Gil and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
2004 - B. B. King and György Ligeti
2003 - Keith Jarrett
2002 - Sofia Gubaidulina and Miriam Makeba
2001 - Burt Bacharach, Robert Moog and Karlheinz Stockhausen
2000 - Bob Dylan and Isaac Stern
1999 - Stevie Wonder and Iannis Xenakis
1998 - Ray Charles and Ravi Shankar
1997 - Eric Ericson and Bruce Springsteen
1996 - Pierre Boulez and Joni Mitchell
1995 - Sir Elton John and Mstislav Rostropovich
1994 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Quincy Jones
1993 - Dizzy Gillespie and Witold Lutosławski
1992 - Sir Paul McCartney and the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

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