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Sting (musician)

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician, activist and actor. He was the frontman, songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music.[4]

For other uses, see Sting (disambiguation).

Sting

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner

(1951-10-02) 2 October 1951
Wallsend, England
  • Musician
  • singer
  • songwriter
  • actor
  • activist

1969–present

6; including Joe, Mickey and Eliot

  • Vocals
  • bass guitar
  • guitar
  • double bass
  • keyboards

As a solo musician and a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards: he won Song of the Year for "Every Breath You Take", three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution in 2002, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2019, he received a BMI Award for "Every Breath You Take" becoming the most-played song in radio history.[5] In 2002, Sting received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003. In 2000, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording. In 2003, Sting received a CBE from Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for services to music. He was made a Kennedy Center Honoree at the White House in 2014 and was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2017.[6] In May 2023, he was made an Ivor Novello Fellow.


With the Police, Sting became one of the world's best-selling music artists. Solo and with the Police combined, he has sold over 100 million records.[7] In 2006, Paste ranked him 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters.[8] He was 63rd of VH1's 100 greatest artists of rock,[9] and 80th of Q's 100 greatest musical stars of the 20th century.[10] He has collaborated with other musicians on songs such as "Money for Nothing" with Dire Straits, "Rise & Fall" with Craig David, "All for Love" with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, "You Will Be My Ain True Love" with Alison Krauss, and "Desert Rose" with Cheb Mami. In 2018, he released the album 44/876, a collaboration with Jamaican musician Shaggy, which won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 2019.[11]

(1985)

The Dream of the Blue Turtles

(1987)

...Nothing Like the Sun

(1991)

The Soul Cages

(1993)

Ten Summoner's Tales

(1996)

Mercury Falling

(1999)

Brand New Day

(2003)

Sacred Love

(2006)

Songs from the Labyrinth

(2009)

If on a Winter's Night...

(2010)

Symphonicities

(2013)

The Last Ship

(2016)

57th & 9th

(2018) (with Shaggy)

44/876

(2019)

My Songs

(2021)[120][121]

The Bridge

(1979) – The Ace Face, the King of the Mods, a.k.a. the Bell Boy in the film adaptation of the Who album.

Quadrophenia

(1979) – Just Like Eddie

Radio On

(1980) – Leader of the Blow Waves. The footage was cut but it later reappeared in the DVD version and in the documentary The Filth and the Fury (2000).

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

(1981) – The angel Helith (BBC TV film)

Artemis 81

(1982) – Martin Taylor, a drifter

Brimstone and Treacle

(1984) – Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen

Dune

(1984) – Steerpike (BBC Radio 4 broadcast based on the Mervyn Peake novel)

Titus Groan

(1984) – Steerpike (BBC Radio 4 broadcast based on the Mervyn Peake novel)

Gormenghast

(1985) – Mick, a black-marketeer

Plenty

(1985) – Baron Frankenstein

The Bride

Walking to New Orleans (1985) – Busker, singing Moon Over Bourbon Street.

(1987) – Daniel, a British gentleman

Julia and Julia

(1988) – a "heroic officer"

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

(1988) – Finney, a nightclub owner

Stormy Monday

(1995), a/k/a Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets and Grave Indiscretion – Fledge

The Grotesque

(1998) – J.D., Eddie's father and owner of a bar.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

(2021) – Horsa

Kaamelott: The First Chapter

Sting has also ventured into acting. Film, television and radio roles include:


As actor


As himself


Sting narrated the American premiere of the musical Yanomamo (1983), by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon, outlining problems that existed in the Amazon rainforest. This was made into a film and later broadcast as Song of the Forest. He also provided the voice of Zarm on the 1990s television show Captain Planet and the Planeteers. In 1989 he starred as Macheath (Mack the Knife) in John Dexter's Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera. Sting also appeared as himself in the video game Guitar Hero World Tour. In 2018, Sting voiced the narrator of Where the Water Tastes Like Wine.

Broken Music. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2003.  0-7434-5081-7.

ISBN

Lyrics by – Sting. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2007.  978-1-84737-167-6.

ISBN

List of number-one hits (United States)

List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)

List of number-one dance hits (United States)

List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart

Mononymous persons

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(1994) to the Berklee College of Music

Sting's Commencement Address

radio interview about John Dowland songs, from NPR Performance Today, 6 March 2007

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