Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 02, 1951
Place of Birth
Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
Credits
291 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
Horsa
Foul Play with Anthony Davis
Sting - Sounds Like Art Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
GIMS à Paris la Défense Arena : le concert événement
Self : Guest (virtual)
In Thanks We Trust
Self
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Self
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
Self
When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain
Self
Lubach
FireAid Benefit Concert
Self
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
Self
Sting: Radio 2 in the Park
Self
Sting and the Police at the BBC
Self
Message in a Bottle
Self - Lead Vocals
Billy Joel: The 100th - Live at Madison Square Garden
Self
Dolly Parton Rockstar Global First Listen Event
Music
Dolly Parton - From Rhinestones to Rock & Roll
Self
Zucchero | Sugar Fornaciari
Self
Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
Self
WHAM!
Self (archive footage)
They All Came Out to Montreux
Self
The Book of Solutions
Sting
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self (archive footage)
Christmas@Home 2022: Das Weihnachtskonzert mit Daniel Hope, Sting und weiteren Gästen
Self : Singer
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self
Sting : My Songs au château de Chambord
Self
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
Self
Sting, Daniel Hope & Freunde in Berlin Mit Golda Schultz, Bruce Liu u.v.m.
Lindisfarne's Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story
Self
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Sting at the Pantheon in Paris - 50 Years of FIP Radio
Self
Great North: A Run. A River. A Region.
Self
Only Murders in the Building
Sting
Footsteps on the Wind
Music
Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Horsa
Mylène Farmer : Les Clips L'Intégrale (1999-2020)
Self
Under the Volcano
Self
Herb Alpert Is...
Self
Le Grand Concert Unis pour le Liban
Self
Mylène Farmer, l’Ultime Création
Self
GIMS: On the Record
Self
Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats
Self
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
Self
Space Songs: Through the Distance
Self
The Big Night In
Self
Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade
Self
The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration
Self
Mylène Farmer: 2019 - Le Film
Self
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
Self
Sting & Shaggy au Château d'Hérouville
Self