Sting
Biography
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.
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8.1
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998-08-28
6.2
Dune
1984-12-14
6.3
George Michael: A Different Story
2004-11-27
0.0
Great North: A Run. A River. A Region.
2021-09-08
7.0
Quadrophenia
1979-09-14
6.0
Bee Movie
2007-10-28
7.9
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
2009-11-29
6.9
Sting - Bring on the Night
1985-11-08
6.5
Punk and Its Aftershocks
1980-05-10
5.7
Stormy Monday
1988-05-01
6.9
The Filth and the Fury
2000-03-29
7.5
The Police: Certifiable
2008-11-11
6.2
America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001-09-21
5.7
Plenty
1985-09-20
5.4
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
2006-04-18
5.3
The Bride
1985-08-16
7.0
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988-12-07
8.0
Attenborough at 90
2016-05-08
7.4
Live 8
2005-11-07
7.0
Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story
2021-11-26
4.8
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004-12-09
6.0
Sting au Panthéon (50 ans de FIP)
2021-10-06
3.5
Artemis '81
1981-12-29
7.7
Sting: Inside - The Songs of Sacred Love
2003-10-03
7.9
Live Aid
1985-07-13
7.4
Sting: The Brand New Day Tour: Live From The Universal Amphitheatre
2000-10-17
7.7
The Police: Live In Concert Tokyo
2008-08-08
5.8
Radio On
1979-11-30
8.0
Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Final - Buenos Aires
1988-10-15
6.9
Chris Botti & Friends - Night Sessions: Live in Concert
2002-08-06
5.1
The Grotesque
1995-09-09
7.7
Sting: Live In Berlin
2010-11-22
7.2
Herb Alpert Is...
2020-10-02
0.0
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985-04-08
5.8
Brimstone & Treacle
1982-10-01
7.2
Sting: All this Time
2001-12-04
6.9
Sting Festival de Viña del Mar
2011-02-25
4.9
Julia and Julia
1988-02-05
6.0
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982-03-01
0.0
CMT Crossroads: Sting and Vince Gill
2011-11-24
6.3
Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out
2007-03-31
7.4
WHAM!
2023-06-27
7.2
The Mighty
1998-06-01
0.0
Sting: The Journey & The Labyrinth: The Music of John Dowland
2004-07-02
4.0
Sting Unplugged
1991-04-10
8.0
The Police: Around The World
1982-01-01
6.3
Hope for Haiti Now
2010-01-02
0.0
The Beatles Revolution
2000-11-17
8.0
Mylène Farmer : Les Clips L'Intégrale (1999-2020)
2021-06-18
7.2
20 Feet from Stardom
2013-06-14
7.0
Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy
1993-12-26
10.0
The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra
2009-02-24
4.7
Resident Alien
1990-09-14
8.0
Police in Montserrat
1983-03-08
0.0
Twin Spirits: Sting performs Schumann
2009-09-29
6.4
Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police
2012-11-09
6.0
Radioman
2012-12-07
0.0
Sting: 57th and 9th - The Interviews
2016-11-11
8.0
Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
2023-08-31
0.0
The Police - Outlandos To Synchronicities
1995-05-30
5.9
The Book of Solutions
2023-06-07
0.0
One World, One Voice
1990-12-09
0.0
Human Rights Now 25th Anniversary
1988-10-14
7.4
Zucchero | Sugar Fornaciari
2023-10-23
8.0
Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icône
2015-12-08
0.0
Sting - 25 Years
2011-09-26
0.0
Iain Goes Inside the Last Ship
2014-12-17
7.2
Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
2014-04-25
0.0
Dolly Parton - From Rhinestones to Rock & Roll
2023-11-07
0.0
The Queen's Birthday Party
2018-04-21
6.5
Sting: When the Last Ship Sails (Live at the Public Theater)
2014-09-19
7.3
GIMS: On the Record
2020-09-17
5.5
Sting: Unplugged
1991-04-10
0.0
Sting's 40th Birthday Celebration: Live from the Hollywood Bowl
1991-10-01
6.8
Chris Botti Live: With Orchestra and Special Guests
2006-10-17
7.0
Sting: A Winter's Night...Live From Durham Cathedral
2009-10-17
0.0
Bruce Springsteen - 32nd Annual of Kennedy Center Honors
2009-12-05
7.1
Still Bill
2010-01-27
7.5
Jaco
2015-03-17
7.7
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998-01-01
0.0
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition
2004-09-20
8.7
Tina Turner : Celebrate!
1999-11-26
8.0
Sting : My Songs au château de Chambord
2022-11-16
8.2
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022-11-19
10.0
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
1988-01-01
8.0
Sting - Fields Of Japan 1994
2010-01-01
0.0
Freedom Beat
2003-01-05
0.0
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
2022-09-06
4.2
If on a Winter's Night ... Live from Durham Cathedral
2009-09-30
7.0
Dire Straits at Live Aid
1985-07-13
8.5
They All Came Out to Montreux
2023-06-16
8.2
Billy Joel: The 100th - Live at Madison Square Garden
2024-04-14
0.0
Peter Gabriel, Sting, & Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Now!
1988-10-14
0.0
Acceleration Punk
1977-01-01
7.0
The Police - Greatest Video Hits
2007-03-30
6.9
The Sweatbox
2002-09-13
7.0
Sting Live At Irving Plaza
2016-11-09
4.9
Zoolander 2
2016-02-06
0.0
Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward
1999-07-20
0.0
The Police: Ghost in the Machine Tour - Live at Gateshead
2001-10-01
0.0
Royal Opera House: Message in a Bottle
2024-05-30
7.0
Sonic Sea
2016-04-22
6.4
Music for Montserrat
1997-09-15
0.0
The Police: Better Than Therapy
2008-11-11
0.0
An Intimate Evening with Mary J. Blige - Live from the House of Blues
2005-08-23
7.2
The Dark Side of The Sun
2017-02-11
0.0
The Police - Live in Rio
2007-01-01
0.0
U2 & The Police: A Conspiracy of Hope
1986-06-15
0.0
Being Mick
2001-11-22
6.1
2012: Time for Change
2010-10-08
7.3
Urgh! A Music War
1981-11-07
5.5
Sting: Beyond The Police
2017-08-18
8.9
Sting: Live at the Olympia Paris
2017-08-18
7.5
Sting: A Free Man
2017-09-08
0.0
Sting - Grenzgänger und Freigeist
2017-12-15
10.0
Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
2018-01-03
7.0
Gurrumul
2018-04-26
6.4
Ruben Blades Is Not My Name
2018-03-18
0.0
Talking Pictures: Quadrophenia
1979-09-07
0.0
All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
2001-04-06
8.0
Sting au Bataclan
2016-11-13
0.0
The Police Rock in Rio - Live Madrid
2008-05-07
8.0
Sting – Fields Of Gold - The Best Of Sting
1994-11-08
7.0
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
2007-04-27
5.6
Brüno
2009-07-08
9.5
John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
2014-04-06
8.0
The Police - Live '79 at Hatfield Polytechnic
1979-02-21
0.0
STING: The Journey & The Labyrinth
2007-02-19
6.3
Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin
1991-10-01
9.2
Live Aid
2004-11-16
5.0
Chris Botti in Boston
2009-03-31
7.5
I Want My MTV
2019-05-01
9.0
The Police: Synchronicity Concert
1984-08-27
9.0
Sting & Shaggy au Château d'Hérouville
2019-05-03
0.0
Take That Away!
1993-11-01
0.0
The Soul Cages Concert
1991-08-10
0.0
The Very Best of Sting & The Police
1997-11-18
0.0
Sting and Gil Evans: Strange Fruit
1987-07-11
8.0
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009-04-24
7.8
The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration
2019-11-28
8.5
Pavarotti & Friends
1992-09-27
0.0
Pavarotti The Duets
2008-05-09
6.6
Kaamelott: The First Chapter
2021-07-21
7.0
Rock'n'roll... Of Corse!
2016-09-21
8.0
The Police: Live At Rockpalast
1980-01-11
8.0
The Police – Live Ghost In The Machine
1996-10-02
0.0
The Police - Live In Oakland
1983-09-10
0.0
Space Songs: Through the Distance
2020-04-30
0.0
Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today
2005-07-13
6.6
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
2020-05-11
6.0
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
1988-06-11
9.5
Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats
2020-05-23
0.0
Branford Marsalis: Steep
1991-01-04
0.0
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
2019-08-09
0.0
'Do They Know It's Christmas?' - The Story Of The Official Band Aid Video
1984-12-01
7.1
The Police - Every Breath You Take
2003-03-18
3.0
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995-10-27
8.0
Le Grand Concert Unis pour le Liban
2020-10-01
0.0
The Police: Live in Essen - Rockpalast 1980
1980-10-18
0.0
Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special
1992-11-18
8.0
Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
2017-09-06
0.0
Biggest Band Break Ups and Make Ups
2015-04-10
0.0
An Audience with Elton John
1997-09-27
7.0
Under the Volcano
2021-03-20
0.0
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
2008-07-17
0.0
Sting - Live at iHeartRadio Music Festival 2016
2016-09-24
6.9
Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who
2007-09-14
6.5
PoliWood
2009-07-03
7.6
Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People
2016-06-15
0.0
Sting - Live at iHeartRadio
6.5
Sting and the Police at the BBC
2024-09-07
0.0
Sting: Radio 2 in the Park
2024-09-07
8.6
Mylène Farmer: 2019 - Le Film
2019-11-07
8.0
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
2024-11-25
5.0
Destination Dune
1983-01-01
4.0
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
2021-10-14
8.7
FireAid Benefit Concert
2025-01-30
0.0
The Best of Max Headroom
1987-03-05
8.7
When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain
2025-05-31
0.0
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
2026-11-11
0.0
In Thanks We Trust
2025-09-27
0.0
Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 3
1988-06-06
0.0
Sting at the Pantheon in Paris 50 Years of FIP Radio
2021-01-01
7.0
Eric Clapton: Standing at the Crossroads
1999-10-10
0.0
Christmas@Home 2022 Daniel Hope, Sting and Guests
2022-01-01
0.0
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007-05-06
5.7
GIMS à Paris la Défense Arena : le concert événement
2025-12-23
9.0
The Big Night In
2020-04-23
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