50 years after the release of ‘Horses’, her most acclaimed album, writer and artist Patti Smith has received the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts at the age of 79. The recognition was granted this Wednesday in the Covadonga Room of the Eurostars Hotel in La Reconquista in Oviedo.
Smith’s career has been awarded for his “impetuous creativity, which connects rock, symbolist poetry and the spirit of the counterculture with great expressive power.” She has been described as a “performer with a vigorous style” who has managed to capture “the rebellion of the individual in society in pulsating songs, some of which are already icons of popular music of our time.”
The jury was chaired by the choreographer María Pagés and the essayist Estrella de Diego. The rest of the jury included artists such as Blanca Li, choreographer and dancer; Christina Rosenvinge; Isabel Muñoz Villalonga, photographer; and Josep Maria Flotats, actor and director, among others.
