Grandmaster Flash — Polar Music Prize

The Polar Music Prize 2019 is awarded to the DJ and musician Joseph Saddler, known as Grandmaster Flash. Born in Barbados and raised in the South Bronx, New York, Grandmaster Flash created a whole new way of making music. Grandmaster Flash is a scientist and a virtuoso who has demonstrated that turntables and mixing consoles can be musical instruments. His adventures at the turntables – “the Adventures of the Wheels of Steel” – changed the course of popular music. Some 40 years later, the musical form and the hip hop culture that Grandmaster Flash helped to create, in the ruins of the South Bronx in the mid-1970s, has grown into the largest music genre, hip hop, in the United States and the world.

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Grandmaster Flash — Polar Music Prize

Grandmaster Flash and Anne-Sophie Mutter win 2019 Polar Music

Grandmaster Flash - Polar Music Prize 2019 Official Announcement

Grandmaster Flash and Anne-Sophie Mutter win 2019 Polar Music

Grandmaster Flash — Polar Music Prize

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Grandmaster Flash receive the Polar Music Prize 2019

Anne-Sophie Mutter, Grandmaster Flash Receive Polar Music Prize

Grandmaster Flash — Polar Music Prize