Cast

Sting

Acting

Cast

Sting

Known for

Acting

Born

1951-10-02

From

Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK

Also known as Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, The Police

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.

Sting

Sting

Biography

Bee Movie

Dune

Lindisfarne's Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story

Brüno

Great North: A Run. A River. A Region.

Being Mick

Zoolander 2

Radioman

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

The Bride

Sting Festival de Viña del Mar

Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward

WHAM!

The Police - Outlandos To Synchronicities

Live 8

The Big Night In

Attenborough at 90

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Sting - Englishman In Japan

Quadrophenia

Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)

Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics

Plenty

Iain Goes Inside the Last Ship

The Mighty

Julia and Julia

Acceleration Punk

Sting: 57th and 9th - The Interviews

The Sweatbox

Live Aid

Hope for Haiti Now

Branford Marsalis: Steep

The Book of Solutions

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

Pavarotti & Friends

Mylène Farmer: 2019 - Le Film

Kaamelott: The First Chapter

The Grotesque

Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People

GIMS à Paris la Défense Arena : le concert événement

The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice!

Sting Unplugged

Sonic Sea

Jaco

America | A Tribute to Heroes

Under the Volcano

20 Feet from Stardom

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Pavarotti The Duets

Destination Dune

Sting and the Police at the BBC

Sting - Live at iHeartRadio Music Festival 2016

Dire Straits at Live Aid

Brimstone & Treacle

Stormy Monday

The Police - Live In Oakland

Sting - Sounds Like Art Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Sting: Radio 2 in the Park

The Police: Certifiable

The Police: Around The World

Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today

Music for Montserrat

The Beatles Revolution

Dire Straits: Money For Nothing

Sting's 40th Birthday Celebration: Live from the Hollywood Bowl

Herbie Hancock: Possibilities

The Filth and the Fury

Freedom Beat

2012: Time for Change

The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special

The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune

The Best of Max Headroom

PoliWood

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

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

Rock'n'roll... Of Corse!

The Police - Live in Rio