Sting

Known for ActingBorn 1951-10-02 (age 74)Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, activist, and actor. He was the frontman, principal 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. Sting has sold a combined total of more than 100 million records as a solo artist and as a member of the Police. He has received three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2002; a Golden Globe; an Emmy; and four Academy Award nominations. As a solo musician and as a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003. Sting has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors; a CBE from Queen Elizabeth II for services to music; Kennedy Center Honors; and the Polar Music Prize. In May 2023, he was made an Ivor Novello Fellow. Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born at Sir G B Hunter Memorial Hospital in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, on 2 October 1951, the eldest of four children of Audrey (née Cowell), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, a milkman and former fitter at an engineering works. He grew up near Wallsend's shipyards, which made an impression on him. As a child, he was inspired by the Queen Mother waving at him from a Rolls-Royce to divert from the shipyard prospect towards a more glamorous life. He helped his father deliver milk and by ten was "obsessed" with an old Spanish guitar left by an emigrating friend of his father. Sting attended St Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne. He visited nightclubs such as Club A'Gogo to see Cream and Manfred Mann, who influenced his music. He learned to sing and play simultaneously by listening to records at 78 rpm. After leaving school in 1969, he enrolled at the University of Warwick in Coventry, but left after a term. After working as a bus conductor, building labourer, and tax officer, he attended the Northern Counties College of Education (now Northumbria University) from 1971 to 1974 and qualified as a teacher.[20] He taught at St Paul's First School in Cramlington for two years. Sting performed jazz in the evenings, at weekends, and during breaks from college and teaching, playing with the Phoenix Jazzmen, Newcastle Big Band and Last Exit. He gained his nickname after his habit of wearing a black and yellow jumper with hooped stripes with the Phoenix Jazzmen. Bandleader Gordon Solomon thought he looked like a bee (or according to Sting himself, "they thought I looked like a wasp"), which prompted the name "Sting". In the 1985 documentary Bring On the Night a journalist called him Gordon, to which he replied, "My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, who is this Gordon character?" In 2011, he told Time "I was never called Gordon. You could shout 'Gordon' in the street and I would just move out of your way". Despite this, he chose not to legally change his name to "Sting". ... Source: Article "Sting (musician)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.Read more

Movies & web series

Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen

The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra

Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward

The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert

The BRIT Awards

Rockpalast

Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats

John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly

On Air with Ryan Seacrest

Live Aid

The Big Night In

Sting & Shaggy au Château d'Hérouville

Sting: Live at the Olympia Paris

VH1 Storytellers

Tina Turner : Celebrate!

An Audience with Elton John

FireAid Benefit Concert

When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain

Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain

Dire Straits: Money For Nothing

The Police: Synchronicity Concert

De TV Show

Billy Joel: And So It Goes

Mylène Farmer: 2019 - Le Film

Bio’s Bahnhof

They All Came Out to Montreux

Only Murders in the Building

Bambi

Billy Joel: The 100th - Live at Madison Square Garden

Sting ‎– Fields Of Gold - The Best Of Sting

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Sting - Sounds Like Art Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?

Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story

Sting : My Songs au château de Chambord

Mylène Farmer : Les Clips L'Intégrale (1999-2020)

Le Grand Concert Unis pour le Liban

The Grammys

Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star

Attenborough at 90

Sting au Bataclan

The Police: Around The World

Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icône

Sting - Fields Of Japan 1994

Sting: A Winter's Night...Live From Durham Cathedral

Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Brian Johnson's A Life on the Road