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Punk legend Iggy Pop and Paris-based Ensemble intercontemporain win Polar Prize

Iggy Pop performing in New York in 2020. © Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images North America/AFP

US punk icon Iggy Pop and the French contemporary music Ensemble intercontemporain founded in 1976 by Pierre Boulez have won Sweden's Polar Music Prize.

"With his courage, initiative and raw power, Iggy Pop paved the way for punk and post-punk," the organisation said of 74-year-old Iggy Pop, born James Newell Osterberg.

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