Iggy Pop, Ensemble Intercontemporain win Polar Music Prize
STOCKHOLM (AP) — American rocker Iggy Pop, known as "the godfather of punk", and Ensemble Intercontemporain, a contemporary music orchestra based in Paris, have won the 2022 Polar Music Prizes, a Swedish music award. The award panel said Tuesday that Iggy Pop, a singer and songwriter whose real name is James Newell Osterberg, has "created furious rock music by blending together blues and free jazz influences with the roar of […]