
Cellist Ana Carla Maza performs, the Mercury Music Prize shortlist
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The Eclecticism of the Mercury Jury
I always make a kind of long list of my own, and then put in my predictions, and I get most of them right. Obviously the Arctic monkeys were going to be on there. Jay Hus is a rap artist who's really making a very broad and most international sounding rap music coming out of this country. And then Fred again, very interesting one because critics hate him. Because he's almost a popularizer of fringe stuff that's happened before. There's a sense that there's something quite cynical and commercial.
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