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Sting (The Police), born on this day in 1951.
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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English 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 world beat in his music.
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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.
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. In May 2023, he was made an Ivor Novello Fellow.
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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. In 2006, Paste ranked him 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters. He was 63rd of VH1’s 100 greatest artists of rock, and 80th of Q’s 100 greatest musical stars of the 20th century.
He has collaborated with other musicians on songs such as “Money for Nothing” with Dire Straits, “All for Love” with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, “Desert Rose” with Cheb Mami, “Rise & Fall” with Craig David, and “You Will Be My Ain True Love” with Alison Krauss. 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.
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Gordon Sumner grew up in a Roman Catholic family and attended Catholic grammar and secondary schools. He was a music enthusiast from an early age, having a special fondness for the Beatles as well as for jazz musicians Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane.
In 1971, after a brief stint at the University of Warwick in Coventry and a series of odd jobs, Sumner enrolled at Northern Counties Teachers Training College (now Northumbria University) intending to become a teacher.
While in school, he performed in local clubs, mostly with jazz bands such as Phoenix Jazzmen and Last Exit. He received the nickname “Sting” from one of his Phoenix Jazzmen bandmates because of the black-and-yellow striped sweater he often wore while performing. After graduating in 1974, Sting taught at St. Paul’s First School in Cramlington for two years.
In 1977, he moved to London and teamed up with musicians Stewart Copeland and Henri Padovani (who was soon replaced with Andy Summers). With Sting on bass, Summers on guitar, and Copeland on drums, the trio formed a new-wave band they called the Police.
They became enormously successful but disbanded in 1984, at their peak. In 1983 the Police had won two Grammy Awards (best pop performance and best rock performance by a group with vocal), and Sting won song of the year for “Every Breath You Take” as well as best rock instrumental performance for the soundtrack of the film Brimstone & Treacle (1982), in which he also had an acting role.
Solo career
For his first solo album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985), Sting switched from bass to guitar. The album was a big success and had the standout singles “If You Love Somebody Set Them Free” and “Fortress Around Your Heart.”
The album included collaborations with jazz musician Branford Marsalis and continued to show the musical versatility that Sting had introduced with the Police. Sting’s next album, …Nothing like the Sun (1987), included collaborations with Eric Clapton and with former bandmate Summers and hits such as “Fragile,” “We’ll Be Together,” “Englishman in New York,” and “Be Still My Beating Heart.”
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Beginning in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Sting acted in numerous films, including Quadrophenia (1979), Dune (1984), and Julia and Julia (1987). During the 1980s Sting also became recognized for his interest in social causes. He performed at Live Aid, a benefit concert for famine relief in Ethiopia, in 1985, and in 1986 and 1988 he performed at the Amnesty International concerts for human rights. In 1987 he and his future wife, Trudie Styler, cofounded the Rainforest Foundation, an organization to protect the rainforest and its indigenous peoples. He continued to be a vocal advocate for human rights and environmental causes throughout his career.
Sting released four albums during the 1990s. The Soul Cages (1991), a darker album reflecting the recent loss of his father, did not fare as well his previous two solo albums. But 1993’s Ten Summoner’s Tales was a triple-platinum album (selling more than three million copies), and Sting won that year’s Grammy for best male pop vocal performance with “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You.” He released Mercury Falling in 1996 and had a big hit with Brand New Day in 1999, especially with the album’s title song and “Desert Rose,” which featured Algerian rai singer Cheb Mami. That album also went triple platinum and in 1999 won the Grammys for best pop album and for best male pop vocal performance for the single “Brand New Day.”
Later work and assessment
In the 21st century, Sting continued to record prolifically and tour regularly. In 2003, he not only won a Grammy for his duet with Mary J. Blige, “Whenever I Say Your Name,” from the album Sacred Love (2003), but he also published an autobiography, Broken Music. Sting branched out into classical music in 2006 with Songs from the Labyrinth, his adaptation of a collection of songs by Elizabethan songwriter John Dowland.
The following year and into 2008, Sting reunited with Summers and Copeland for the highly successful Police Reunion Tour. Later he released If on a Winter’s Night… (2009), an album of traditional folk songs, and an ambitious album of orchestral arrangements of his old songs, Symphonicities (2010). For the latter he toured with London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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In the summer of 2014 The Last Ship, a musical written by Sting and inspired by his childhood in the shipbuilding town of Wallsend, had its off-Broadway debut in Chicago and was praised by critics. It debuted on Broadway that fall, but, as it began to founder, Sting joined the cast in the lead role; the production closed in 2015. An album of the same name (released 2013) was the first recording of new music Sting had released in about a decade.
He returned to his rock roots for 57th & 9th (2016), and two years later he collaborated with reggae star Shaggy for his first duets album, 44/876 (2018), which won a Grammy for best reggae album. For My Songs (2019), Sting reinterpreted a number of his classics, including some originally recorded with the Police.
Sting contributed music to numerous movie soundtracks, notably the animated Disney movie The Emperor’s New Groove (2000), as well as the romantic comedy Kate & Leopold (2001) and the Civil War drama Cold Mountain (2003). He earned Academy Award nominations for the songs he contributed to each of them (2001, 2002, and 2004, respectively) and won a Golden Globe (2002) for the song “Until…” from Kate & Leopold.
In addition to more than 15 Grammys, Sting also won numerous Brit Awards (the British equivalent of the Grammys) for his work with the Police as well as for his solo work.
In 2002, Sting was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in 2004 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
Sting received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2014, awarded by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to individuals who have made significant contributions to American culture through the performing arts, and in 2017 he was awarded the Polar Music Prize for lifetime achievement by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
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