Laura Marling continued her winning run after picking up a surprise award for best British female at the Brit Awards last week, which saw sales of her acclaimed second album 'I Speak Because I can' leap as a result, moving from No 80 to No 21 in the chart.
Diedre Nyota Dawkins, who won for performing with Ronald K. Brown, confessed that she had been about to leave before the surprise award.
The occasion was his 80th birthday -- and a surprise award of a new annual prize ($50,000) in labor economics, from the Institute for the Study of Labor, based in Bonn, Germany.
BRUSSELS — Seven days after his German, French and Italian counterparts welcomed the surprise award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union, David Cameron, the British prime minister, finally followed suit at a summit meeting here Friday.
One of these awards will be given to the winner of each of the twenty categories for the Crunchies (21 categories actually, we have an additional surprise award).
"I felt like I would be paying off this loan the rest of my life on that plan," said Shelton, whose degree focused on intercultural studies, "but this freed me and my wife to do what we're most passionate about". (An Indianapolis TV station covered Shelton receiving the surprise award).
The Norwegian Peace Prize committee has a dilemma this year: how to top last year's surprise award to President Obama.
A demo of the newly titled Sonic Rush was featured at E3 2005, and won video game publication IGN's "Biggest Surprise" award.
Though, as Mumford's big win at the Grammy's this year, and Arcade Fire's surprise award back in 2011, shows us, Indie artists are breaking through.
