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Chic frontman Nile Rodgers among Polar Music Prize winners

Source: PA Archive

Chic frontman Nile Rodgers and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen have been announced as recipients of the prestigious Polar Music Prize 2024 – often described as the “Nobel Prize of music”.

Each year the prize typically honours two figures, one contemporary and one classical, for significant achievements in music.

The ceremony for the award, which was first handed to Sir Paul McCartney in 1992, will take place at the Grand Hotel in , , on May

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