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Juryns motivering: "The Polar Music Prize 2015 is awarded to the artist Emmylou Harris from Birmingham, Alabama. No one in the history of popular music has harmonised like Emmylou Harris. For five decades she has embellished other artists’ recordings by adding vocal parts that did not exist in the melodies. But it is as an artist in her own right that she has made the greatest contribution. The music of Emmylou Harris contains the history and topography of the entire American continent. Her voice follows the contours of the American landscape, from the highest peaks to the endless prairie. Weather, soil and colour, it can all be perceived in her music. As she sings in one of the best of her own compositions, she is a red dirt girl from a red dirt town. Emmylou Harris has also used her position as a musician to work for feminism, animal rights and the care of people affected by war. Emmylou Harris makes the world bigger and smaller, more valuable and more beautiful." Nice!

Polarpriset i den andra kategorin, konstmusik, gick i år till slagverkaren Evelyn Glennie. Ett för mig helt okänt namn, men det känns väldigt kul att priset för första gången går till två kvinnor! Ska lyssna på Glennie.

Ok vi kör en Emmylou-klassiker till. Neil Young skrev den här låten, men ingen annan än Emmylou borde sjunga den. Älskar den här nästan lika mycket som jag älskar "Where will I be".