El Polar Award, currently considered the Nobel Prize for Music, was created in the year 1989 by Stig andersson, editor, composer and representative of the group Abba.
Since its establishment in 1992 Until today, many luminaries have already been honored with this prestigious award: BB King, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Gilberto Gil, among others.
This year it was the turn of the legendary British group Pink Floyd. He King Carlos Gustavo of Sweden in person he was in charge of delivering this award (in a ceremony that took place in the The concert hall de Stockholm), along with a check for U.S. dollar 157000 or with a honorary diploma.
Representing the Floyd, band nicked for several years by continuous disputes of interests, the bassist and singer Roger Waters and the battery Nick Mason they received the Nobel that according to the jury in charge of the deliberations, it is highly deserved since “significantly influenced the evolution of popular music and symphonic rock, united art and music, bet on experimentation and were decisive in the birth of a new generation".
Congratulations.
Via | EFE