2002 Polar Music Prize (1)

Reason for Award

"...Miriam Makeba embodied the concept of world music long before the term even existed on the musical map. In the 1960s, her expressive voice drew attention to the musical riches of the African continent."

Laureates

Miriam Makeba

South Africa

Other works in the same year

"...whose intensely expressive and deeply personal musical idiom has the ability to speak to an ever-growing audience of listeners all over the world."

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