Today's the day of the SACEM Grands Prix 2014, where the organisation celebrates some of the biggest players in the field.The Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique performs a job like the Performing Rights Society does in the UK, collecting payments of the rights of artists and then distributing these to the songwriters, composers and music publishers.
The ceremony at the Olympia in Paris sees an award going to Johnny Hallyday , who receives the Prix Spécial.
Among the other awards, there's recognition for Lilly Wood and the Prick for Prayer in C, getting the Rolf Marbot Prize for song of the year.
Martin Solveig gets an award for best Electro, The Grand Prize for French Song, creator-performer goes to Pascal Obispo and the Grand Prize for French Song creator goes Jean-Pierre Bucolo, who has worked with Johnny Hallyday and others.
There are awards for Jazz, traditional and world music, symphonic, humour as well as awards for film directors and music publishing.
The event is being streamed on the sacem.fr website from 8pm Paris time.
Grands Prix Sacem 2014 by SACEM
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