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LED ZEPPELIN Win Polar Music Prize

November 7, 2005

CBC Arts is reporting that LED ZEPPELIN and Russian conductor Valery Gergiev have been named the 2006 winners of the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm.

Founded in 1989 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and Stig Anderson, manager of Swedish pop group ABBA, the annual prize honors one pop and one classical artist for their contributions to music. Each winner receives about $125,000 U.S.

Organizers called LED ZEPPELIN "one of the great pioneers of rock," citing the British band's "playful and experimental music combined with highly eclectic elements." The group has helped define hard rock, the academy said Monday.

Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf will present the prizes at a ceremony on May 22, 2006.

Previous Polar Music Prize-winners include Ray Charles, Brazilian culture minister and longtime musician Gilberto Gil, sitar player Ravi Shankar, pianist Keith Jarrett, blues guitarist B.B. King, producer Quincy Jones, French conductor-composer Pierre Boulez, jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.

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