- Title: UK: STING RECEIVES HUMANITARIAN AWARD AT A MUSICAL AWARD CEREMONY IN LONDON
- Date: 10th October 1997
- Summary: VARIOUS FILM ON BIG SCREEN OF STING IN BRAZIL FOCUSING ATTENTION ON PLIGHT OF RAIN FORESTS
- Embargoed: 25th October 1997 13:00
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- Location: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
- Country: United Kingdom
- Reuters ID: LVABU9KZTRDBTXRT5C7K592TKYUF
- Story Text: British rock star Sting and his wife Trudie Styler have been rewarded for their humanitarian efforts at this year's Broadcast Music Industry (BMI) awards.
The annual event honours songs which have received the most airplay on radio and television in the United States.
At the ceremony, held at London's Dorchester hotel last Thursday (October 9), Sting was presented with a special Humanitarian Award in recognition of the couple's attempts to save the Amazonian rain forests from deforestation.
Julian Lennon, the son of the late Beatle John, watched proudly as three awards went to songs co-written by his father. He said the recognition proved good music lives on.
One of the most popular awards of the night went to Ray Davies of the Kinks for his classic single "You Really Got Me" which received more than 2 million plays in the United States.
Davies joked afterwards that he thought if they counted the number of times the band had played the song it would add up to 20 million.
Composers were also recognised for their talents and British composer David Arnold was awarded for his score to the smash-hit film "Independence Day.
Arnold is currently working on the score for the new Bond movie and helped out in the recent release "A Life Less Ordinary". His first found fame when writing the score for the film "Stargate".
The talents of Elton John and Bernie Taupin also figured heavily.
Pop singer Sting and his wife Trudie, are co-founders of The Rainforest Foundation which has raised more than six million U.S.
dollars since its inception in 1989.
The money goes towards supporting the indigenous populations of rainforest areas in their efforts to protect their environent and preserve their rights The foundation claims it protects an area the size of Switzerland within the Brazilion Amazon. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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