Named for one of the industry's most revered personalities, the Les Paul Award was created in 1991 to honor individuals or institutions that have set the highest standards of excellence in the creative application of recording technology.

Steve Miller
is the 2006 Les Paul Award Winner

Steve Miller’s 40-year career since forming the Steve Miller Band at the height of San Francisco’s psychedelic ’60s, boasts a wealth of compositions that have consistently outrun familiar genres with fresh and enduring sounds, becoming the new classics of American popular music. Incorporating jazz and blues styles with riveting pop melodies, Miller has produced a host of Top 40 hits such as The Joker, Fly Like an Eagle, Take the Money and Run, Jet Airliner, Rockin’ Me and Abracadabra, as well as a number of Gold and Platinum albums. His innovative stage techniques such as quad sound, rear-screen projection and laser shows became standard practice of large arena concerts in the late ’70s. With a ready embrace of a variety of musical traditions and a unique artistic vision, Miller’s work exemplifies the creative application of audio technology honored and celebrated with the Les Paul Award.
“Steve Miller is one of the most recognized and profound musicians of our time,” says Henry Juszkiewicz, chairman and CEO of Gibson Guitar Corp. "We are honored and thrilled that he is the recipient of this year’s Les Paul Award.” For the eighth consecutive year, the Les Paul Award is sponsored by Gibson Guitar Corp. of Nashville.

Past Les Paul Winners

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