Stucky honored with Grand Prix Music
This year's Swiss Grand Prix Music goes to Erika Stucky. A further fourteen musicians will be honored with the Swiss Music Prize. The award ceremony will take place on September 17 as part of the Label Suisse festival at the Opéra de Lausanne.
Erika Stucky plays an outstanding role in the music scene in Switzerland and far beyond, according to the BAK press release. Born in San Francisco (USA) in 1961, she has been working on her own sound universe since the 1980s, often in collaboration with important jazz musicians. As a singer, multi-instrumentalist and performance artist, she takes on a wide variety of artistic identities. The music of the hippie movement in her native San Francisco accompanied her across the Atlantic to the Upper Valais mountain village of Mörel, where she grew up from the age of seven.
The Swiss Music Prize "honors outstanding and innovative Swiss music creation and contributes to its promotion". The following 14 musicians will be honored in 2020: Martina Berther (Chur GR), Big Zis (Winterthur ZH), Aïsha Devi (Geneva), Christy Doran (Dublin/Lucerne), Antoine Chessex (Vevey VD), André Ducret (Fribourg im Üechtland), Dani Häusler (Unterägeri ZG), Rudolf Kelterborn (Basel), Hans Koch (Biel/Bienne BE), Francesco Piemontesi (Locarno TI), Cyrill Schläpfer (Wald AR), Nat Su (Bülach ZH), Swiss Chamber Concerts (BS, GE, TI, ZH), Emilie Zoé (Lausanne VD).
The Swiss Grand Prix Music is endowed with CHF 100,000, the Swiss Music Awards with CHF 25,000 each.
