2014 Polar Music Prize (1) | Nobel Prize Net

2014 Polar Music Prize (1)

Reason for Award

"...Chuck Berry was the rock'n'roll pioneer who turned the electric guitar into the main instrument of rock music."

Laureates

Chuck Berry

United States of America

Other works in the same year

"...Peter Sellars shows us that classical music is not about dusty sheet music and metronomic precision, but that classical music, with its violent power and complexity, has fundamentally always been and will continue to be a way of reflecting and depicting the world."

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