AVO SESSION Basel Awards
The winners of this year’s awards are: LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
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Singer, actress, dancer and entertainer: No other artist has influenced American
show business like Liza Minnelli. As the daughter of Hollywood legend Judy Garland
and the director Vincente Minnelli, she was literally born into the biz. There were
positive and negative side effects. On the one hand, Liza’s major talent was
discovered early on. On the other hand, countless moves and new schools affected
her childhood years. At a young age, she took on the role of the head of the family,
taking care of the household and her two siblings. In 1972, she became worldfamous
with the film «Cabaret» and received the Oscar as the best actress and on
Broadway, this consummate musical actress was simply brilliant. For having survived
family and showbiz ups and downs with style and unparalleled optimism, Liza
Minnelli has more than earned the Lifetime Achievement Award of the AVO
SESSION Basel. |
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MUSICIAN'S MUSICIAN AWARD STEVE EARLE |
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Here in Switzerland, the US country and folk scene is often unfairly regarded
as old fashioned and backward. Musician, producer, actor and now also book
author Steve Earle gives proof that the spectrum is actually broad. Like no
other musician, he has influenced the alternative country scene over the last
20 years with liberal and socially critical topics. Earle, whose political views
were shaped by the hippy and anti-Vietnam war movement, started singing
about injustice in his own country early on: poverty, homelessness and the
death penalty were some of his themes. After 9/11, he polarised America
with his song «John Walker’s Blues», because the song was told from the
point of view of US citizen and Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh. In 2005,
Earle received a Grammy award for his musical attack against the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq: «The Revolution Starts…Now». This year, his highly
regarded novel, «I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive» was published –
reason enough to honour this creative, restless and hard-working musician
with the Musician’s Musician Award of the AVO SESSION Basel. |
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| Who selects the winners? | |
The following music experts selected the winners of the gold awards: Martin Schäfer, Michael Schuler, Christoph Schwegler, Sina, Zeno van Essel, Chris von Rohr, Beatrice Stirnimann and Matthias Müller. |
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