The Angel Award is a Czech music award issued by the Czech Academy of Popular Music. It is a successor of the Annual Czechoslovak Music Award established in 1991 in Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

. In 1992-1997 it was known as Gramy (i.e., Grammy), with the award including a ceramic gramophone

Phonograph

The phonograph record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 that has had continued common use for reproducing sound recordings, although when first developed, the phonograph was used to both record and reproduce sounds...

 statuette. Since 1997 it bears the current name, with the award including a statuette of an angel playing horn

Horn (instrument)

The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....

 designed by sculptor Jaroslav Róna

Jaroslav Róna

Jaroslav Róna is a Czech sculptor, painter, actor, educator, and writer.-Works:*Franz Kafka bronze statue, Dusni Street , historic Jewish Quarter, Prague; inspired by the events in the Description of a Struggle*The Angel Award statuette *The Komerční banka Award statuette*Book, Umanuté kresby,...

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History

• 1991: originally formed as Výroční československé hudební ceny
• 1992-1995: renamed to Gramy
• 1996: renamed to České Gramy
• 1997: renamed to Ceny Hudební akademie
• 1998-2000: renamed to Ceny Akademie populární hudby
• 2001-2002: renamed to Anděl
• 2003: renamed to Výroční ceny Akademie populární hudby Anděl
• 2004: renamed to Ceny Akademie populární hudby
• 2005-2007: Anděl Allianz
• 2008-present: Ceny Anděl