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The Deaf percussion virtuoso Evelyn Glennie and American country star Emmylou Harris is the 2015 recipient of the Polar Music Prize. DN had an interview with one lucky prize winners.
The Deaf percussion virtuoso Evelyn Glennie and American country star Emmylou Harris is the 2015 recipient of the Polar Music Prize. DN had an interview with one lucky prize winners.
Emmylou Harris lift the handset home in west Nashville. It’s raining, but she’s happy anyway – it snows at least not as it has done on and off for a couple of weeks Tennessee now and she has just received a Polar Music and some just over 117 $ 000 thereto, the prize sum of a million dollars.
– It feels like I’m a fairy princess on the way to the castle in Stockholm, she laughs, I feel incredibly honored.
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The prize money will go to the dogs. They own, they cared and who is now fetal doggies around the country town.
– I have three of my dog stall for redeployment dogs right now, though only two of its own – Bella, my big black doggy, passed away last year, it’s always a sadness.
You are the first country music artist to receive the Polar Music Prize – how do you see your role in country music history?
– I see myself as a singer on interprets songs and sometimes write songs. As a real survivor who crossed genre boundaries. Assuming the charts, I have had a career with many ups and downs. But I have a wonderful audience who followed me and I can still play live, touring and making records, doing what I want, she sums up.
– I started my artistliv in country music and I carry always with me but today the music is often mixed with so many other styles – what I do is called the often americana today, she says. A concept that was not there when she, Gram Parsons, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Buddy Miller and her other colleagues began to play.
– Well, we were a kind of pioneers who started mixing musical styles.
The news that Emmylou Harris received the 2015 Polar Music resulted in immediate speculation about whether there will be Swedish First Aid Kit – with the hit song “Emmylou” – who will sing for her during the awards ceremony on 9 June. Something Harris fervently hope. She moved above the “sweet congrats Video” which hit duo sent her.
– I had never heard “Emmylou” when it suddenly started playing in a store in Adelaide, Australia I was in. It’s such a great song, I love the music, and that furthermore be mentioned together with Johnny and June Cash is of course a huge honor.
What are your strengths as an artist?
– perseverance. And my love for the work itself. I love music and are still very enthusiastic about it. But it’s also largely about them that I work with. Music is never created in a vacuum. We inspire each other.
What are your strengths as a singer?
– It is harder … maybe I can be very involved in the songs and lyrics, words and then only occurs anthem. It is a gift to be able to become so filled with music and yearn to express something in a song writing.
The jury for the Polar Music Prize sits among the opera singer Malena Ernman, who liked you a long time. She points out that you have an impressive ability to also sing with others in duets, follow others’ voice.
– There are some fun, because I’ve never liked that it was difficult. For me, duets like dancing with someone, even though I’m a lousy dancer. Duets is something I seriously started together with Gram (Parsons). That’s when I found that voice and it brought me, who came from folk music into country music. But I have done so many duets since then, I love to sing with Dolly (Parton), Linda (Ronstadt) – and Rodney (Crowell), we release a new album together this spring.
You are inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, has received 26 Grammy awards and has published nearly thirty studio albums – what you have not yet done as an artist?
– One thing I’m thinking about now is to collect my singing girls and record an entire album of songs by women who inspired me, as Joan Baez, Patti Griffin, Jody Miller, Martha Wainwright and Shawn Collins, for example, there are many to choose from.
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