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Annual Latvian Music Recording Awards

award for Latvian musicians

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ5765089 ↗
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The Annual Latvian Music Recording Award "Golden Microphone" (Latvian: Latvijas Mūzikas ierakstu gada balva Zelta Mikrofons) is the annual award for the best Latvian musicians. The award was established in 1995 (for music on 1994) under the name Mikrofona Gada Balva (Microphone of the Year Award) and renamed since 1997 (for year of 1996). It was dubbed "the Latvian Grammy".

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This entry incorporates text from “Annual Latvian Music Recording Awards” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.