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The American singer Emmylou Harris. EFE / File

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             Emmylou Harris and Evelyn Glennie win the Polar prize, the “Nobel” of music

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10/03/2015 04: 10 (-6 GTM)

                Copenhagen, March 10 (EFE) .- The US singer Emmylou Harris and classical percussionist Evelyn Glennie British were honored today in Stockholm with the Polar Prize, considered the “Nobel” of music.
The jury noted that “no in the history of popular music has it done as Emmylou Harris harmonies “, whose music contains” the history and topography of the entire American continent. “
For Glennie, deaf since age twelve, stresses that “It has expanded our understanding of what music is and has shown us that only partially through the ear hears” that the body is “an echo chamber” and live in “a world of sounds.”
Harris, 67, and since 2008 is part of the Hall of Fame Country Music has released over 25 albums and sold 15 million albums in a career lasting four decades in which he also won thirteen Grammy Awards .
The Scottish Evelyn Glennie, 49, starred in 1992′s first percussion recital in the history of the prestigious festival BBC Proms music and has performed all over the world with some of the most renowned conductors and orchestras also recorded thirty albums.
In the UK also managed to change the criteria for admission to schools of music, highlights the failure.
Harris and Glennie happen in the honors director award American scene and his compatriot Peter Sellars, rock musician Chuck Berry.
receive the Polar awarded, worth a million kronor (109,000 euros, $ 118,000) from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden 9 June at a gala at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
The Polar Prize was created in 1989 by Stig Andersson, editor, composer and representative of Abba.
Since 1992 began to be granted, the Polar distinguished performers like BB King, Cyorgy Ligeti, Keith Jarrett, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Pierre Boulez, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd, Dizzy Gillespie, Sony Rollins, Gilberto Gil, Ennio Morricone and Björk group.