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Sting (musician)

April 19, 2023

"Gordon Sumner" redirects here. For the Australian rules footballer, see Gordon Sumner (footballer). For the professional wrestler known as Sting, see Sting (wrestler). For other uses, see Sting.

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician and actor. He was the frontman, songwriter and bassist for new wave rock 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.[4]

Sting

CBE
Sting performing at The Queen's Birthday Party in 2018
Born
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner

(1951-10-02) 2 October 1951 (age 71)
Wallsend, England
Alma materNorthern Counties College of Education
Occupations
  • Musician
  • singer
  • songwriter
  • actor
Years active1971–present
Spouses
Children6; including Joe, Mickey and Eliot
AwardsFull list
Musical career
Genres
Instrument(s)
Labels
Formerly ofThe Police
Websitesting.com
Signature

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.[5] 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.[6]

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.[7] In 2006, Paste ranked him 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters.[8] He was 63rd of VH1's 100 greatest artists of rock,[9] and 80th of Q magazine's 100 greatest musical stars of the 20th century.[10] He has collaborated with other musicians on songs such as "Money for Nothing" with Dire Straits, "Rise & Fall" with Craig David, "All for Love" with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, "You Will Be My Ain True Love" with Alison Krauss, and introduced the North African music genre raï to Western audiences through the hit song "Desert Rose" with Cheb Mami. 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.

Early life

 
Wallsend shipyard, circa 1964, near where Sting grew up. His childhood experiences and the local shipbuilding industry was the inspiration for his 2014 musical The Last Ship, which is also set in Wallsend.

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born at Sir G B Hunter Memorial Hospital in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, on 2 October 1951,[11][12][13] the eldest of four children of Audrey (née Cowell), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, a milkman and engineer. He grew up near Wallsend's shipyards, which made an impression on him. As a child, he was inspired by the Queen waving at him from a Rolls-Royce to divert from the shipyard prospect towards a more glamorous life.[14][15] He helped his father deliver milk and by ten was "obsessed" with an old Spanish guitar left by an emigrating friend of his father.[16]

He 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.[17] 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.[18] He taught at St Paul's First School in Cramlington for two years.[19]

Sting performed jazz in the evenings, on weekends, and during breaks from college and teaching, playing with the Phoenix Jazzmen, Newcastle Big Band and Last Exit.[20] 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".[21][22] 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?"[23] In 2011, he told Time that "I was never called Gordon. You could shout 'Gordon' in the street and I would just move out of your way".[24]

Musical career

1977–1984: The Police and early solo work

Main article: The Police

In January 1977, Sting moved from Newcastle to London and joined Stewart Copeland and Henry Padovani (soon replaced by Andy Summers) to form the Police. From 1978 to 1983, they had five UK chart-topping albums, won six Grammy Awards and won two Brit Awards (for Best British Group and for Outstanding Contribution to Music).[25][26] Their initial sound was punk-inspired, but they switched to reggae rock and minimalist pop. Their final album, Synchronicity, was nominated for five Grammy Awards including Album of the Year in 1983. It included their most successful song, "Every Breath You Take", written by Sting.

Even though logic would say, "Are you out of your mind? You're in the biggest band in the world – just bite the bullet and make some money." But there continued to be some instinct, against logic, against good advice, [that] told me I should quit.

—Sting on quitting the band in 1984.[27]

According to Sting, appearing in the documentary Last Play at Shea, he decided to leave the Police while onstage during a concert of 18 August 1983 at Shea Stadium in New York City because he felt that playing that venue was "[Mount] Everest".[28] While never formally breaking up, after Synchronicity, the group agreed to concentrate on solo projects.[29] As the years went by, the band members, especially Sting, dismissed the possibility of reforming. In 2007, however, the band did reform and undertook a reunion tour.[30]

Four of the band's five studio albums appeared on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and two of the band's songs, "Every Breath You Take" and "Roxanne", each written by Sting, appeared on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[31] In addition, "Every Breath You Take" and "Roxanne" were among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2003, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[32] They were also included in Rolling Stone's and VH1's lists of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".[33][34]

In 1978, Sting collaborated with members of Hawkwind and Gong as the Radio Actors on the one-off single "Nuclear Waste".[35] In September 1981, Sting made his first live solo appearance, on all four nights of the fourth Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman's Other Ball in London's Drury Lane theatre at the invitation of producer Martin Lewis. He performed solo versions of "Roxanne" and "Message in a Bottle". He also led an all-star band (dubbed "the Secret Police") on his own arrangement of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released". The band and chorus included Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, all of whom (except Beck) later worked on Live Aid. His performances were in the album and movie of the show. The Secret Policeman's Other Ball began his growing involvement in political and social causes. In 1982 he released a solo single, "Spread a Little Happiness" from the film of the Dennis Potter television play Brimstone and Treacle. The song was a reinterpretation of the 1920s musical Mr. Cinders by Vivian Ellis and a Top 20 hit in the UK.[36]

1985–1989: Solo debut

 
Sting performing in Norway in 1985

His first solo album, 1985's The Dream of the Blue Turtles, featured jazz musicians including Kenny Kirkland, Darryl Jones, Omar Hakim and Branford Marsalis. It included the hit singles "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" (backed with the non-LP song "Another Day"), "Fortress Around Your Heart", "Love Is the Seventh Wave" and "Russians", the latter of which was based on a theme from the Lieutenant Kijé Suite.[37] Within a year, the album reached Triple Platinum. The album received Grammy nominations for Album of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance and Best Engineered Recording.[38]

In November 1984, Sting was part of Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", which raised money for famine victims in Ethiopia.[39] Released in June 1985, Sting sang the line "I Want My MTV" on "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits.[40] In July 1985, Sting performed Police hits at the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium in London. He also joined Dire Straits in "Money for Nothing" and he sang two duets with Phil Collins.[41][42] In 1985, Sting provided spoken vocals for the Miles Davis album You're Under Arrest, taking the role of a French-speaking police officer. He also sang backing vocals on Arcadia's single "The Promise", on two songs from Phil Collins' album No Jacket Required, and contributed "Mack the Knife" to the Hal Willner-produced tribute album Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill. In September 1985, he performed "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in New York.[43] The 1985 film Bring On the Night, directed by Michael Apted, documented the formation of his solo band and its first concert in France.[44]

 
Sting and Bono at the Conspiracy of Hope concert in New Jersey, 1986

Sting released ...Nothing Like the Sun in 1987, including singles, "We'll Be Together", "Fragile", "Englishman in New York" and "Be Still My Beating Heart", dedicated to his mother, who had recently died. It went Double Platinum. "The Secret Marriage" from this album was adapted from Hanns Eisler and "Englishman in New York" was about Quentin Crisp. The album's title is from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130.[45] The album won Best British Album at the 1988 Brit Awards and in 1989 received three Grammy nominations including his second consecutive nomination for Album of the Year. "Be Still My Beating Heart" earned nominations for Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. In 1989, ...Nothing Like the Sun was ranked number 90 and his Police album Synchronicity was ranked number 17 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest albums of the 1980s.[46]

In February 1988, he made Nada como el sol, four songs from Nothing like the Sun he sang in Spanish and Portuguese. In 1987, jazz arranger Gil Evans placed him in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs, and on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way he performed an arrangement of "Murder by Numbers", set to "Stolen Moments" by Oliver Nelson and dedicated to evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. In October 1988 he recorded a version of Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Kent Nagano. It featured Vanessa Redgrave, Ian McKellen, Gianna Nannini and Sting as the soldier.[47]

1990–1997: Greater solo success

His 1991 album, The Soul Cages, was dedicated to his late father. It included "All This Time" and the Grammy-winning title track. The album went Platinum. The album also included an Italian version of Mad About You. The text was written by his friend Zucchero Fornaciari. The song was then included in Overdose d'amore/The Ballads (1999) and in Zu & Co. (2004) of the Italian bluesman. The following year, he married Trudie Styler and was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from Northumbria University. In 1991, he appeared on Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin. He performed "Come Down in Time" for the album, which also features other popular artists and their renditions of John/Taupin songs.

In England, our house is surrounded by barley fields, and in the summer it's fascinating to watch the wind moving over the shimmering surface, like waves on an ocean of gold. There's something inherently sexy about the sight, something primal, as if the wind were making love to the barley. Lovers have made promises here, I'm sure, their bonds strengthened by the comforting cycle of the seasons.

—Sting on the "Fields of Gold" lyrics.[48]

Sting's fourth album Ten Summoner's Tales peaked at two in the UK and US album charts in 1993 and went triple platinum in just over a year.[36][49] The album was recorded at his Elizabethan country home, Lake House in Wiltshire. Ten Summoner's Tales was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1993 and for the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1994. The title is a wordplay on his surname, Sumner and "The Summoner's Tale", one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Hit singles on the album include "Fields of Gold", a song inspired by the barley fields next to his Wiltshire home, with the music video featuring a silhouette of Sting walking through a village containing common features seen throughout the UK during that time such as a red telephone box and "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You", the latter earning his second award for best male pop singer at the 36th Grammy Awards.[50]

In May 1993, he covered his own Police song from the Ghost in the Machine album, "Demolition Man", for the Demolition Man film. With Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, Sting performed "All for Love" for the film The Three Musketeers. The song stayed at the top of the U.S. charts for three weeks, topped multiple other charts worldwide and reached number two in the UK. In February, he won two Grammy Awards and was nominated for three more.[50] Berklee College of Music awarded him his second honorary doctorate of music in May. In November, he released the compilation, Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting, which was certified Double Platinum. That year, he sang with Vanessa Williams on "Sister Moon" and appeared on her album The Sweetest Days. At the 1994 Brit Awards in London, he was Best British Male.[51]

Sting's 1996 album, Mercury Falling debuted strongly, with the single "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" reaching No. 15 in the UK Singles Chart, but the album soon dropped from the charts. He reached the UK Top 40 with two further singles the same year with "You Still Touch Me" (#27 in June) and "I Was Brought To My Senses" (#31 in December). The song "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" from this album also became a US country music hit in 1997 in a version with Toby Keith. Sting recorded music for the Disney film Kingdom of the Sun, which was reworked into The Emperor's New Groove. The film's overhauls and plot changes were documented by Sting's wife, Trudie Styler, as the changes resulted in some songs not being used.[52] Also in 1996, he sang for the Tina Turner single "On Silent Wings" as a part of her Wildest Dreams album. In the same year, his performance with the Brazilian composer/artist Tom Jobim in "How Insensitive" was in the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization. Sting cooperated with Greek singer George Dalaras in a concert in Athens. "Moonlight", a rare jazz performance by Sting for the 1995 remake of Sabrina, written by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and John Williams, was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television. On 4 September 1997, Sting performed "I'll Be Missing You" with Puff Daddy at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards in tribute to Notorious B.I.G.[53] On 15 September 1997, Sting appeared at the Music for Montserrat concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, performing with fellow English artists Paul McCartney, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and Mark Knopfler.[54]

1998–2005: Brand New Day and soundtrack work

 
Sting on stage in Budapest in January 2000

A period of relative musical inactivity followed from 1997, before Sting eventually re-emerged in September 1999, with a new album Brand New Day, which gave him two more UK Top 20 hits in the title track "Brand New Day" (a UK No. 13 hit featuring Stevie Wonder on harmonica) and "Desert Rose" (a UK No. 15 hit). The album went Triple Platinum by January 2001. In 2000, he won Grammy Awards for Brand New Day and the song of the same name. At the awards ceremony, he performed "Desert Rose" with his collaborator on the album version, Cheb Mami.

In 2000, the soundtrack for The Emperor's New Groove was released with complete songs from the previous version of the film. The final single used to promote the film, "My Funny Friend and Me", was Sting's first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Song.[50]

In February 2001, he won another Grammy for "She Walks This Earth (Soberana Rosa)" on A Love Affair: The Music Of Ivan Lins. His "After the Rain Has Fallen" made it into the Top 40. His next project was a live album at his villa in Figline Valdarno, released as a CD and DVD as well as being broadcast on the internet. The CD and DVD were to be entitled On Such a Night and intended to feature re-workings of Sting favourites such as "Roxanne" and "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free". The concert, scheduled for 11 September 2001, was altered due to the terrorist attacks in America that day. The webcast shut after one song (a reworked version of "Fragile"), after which Sting let the audience decide whether to continue the show. They decided to go ahead and the album and DVD appeared in November as ...All This Time, dedicated "to all those who lost their lives on that day". He performed "Fragile" with Yo-Yo Ma and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, US.[55]

In 2002, he won a Golden Globe Award for "Until..." from the film Kate & Leopold.[50] Written and performed by him, "Until..." was his second nomination for an Academy Award for Best Song.[50] At the 2002 Brit Awards in February, Sting received the prize for Outstanding Contribution to Music.[51] In May 2002 he received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.[56] In June he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In the Queen's Birthday Honours 2003 Sting was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire For services to the Music Industry.[57] At the 54th Primetime Emmy Awards in September, Sting won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety Or Music Program, for his A&E special, Sting in Tuscany... All This Time.[50]

In 2003, Sting released Sacred Love, a studio album featuring collaborations with hip-hop artist Mary J. Blige and sitar performer Anoushka Shankar. He and Blige won a Grammy for their duet, "Whenever I Say Your Name". The song is based on Johann Sebastian Bach's Praeambulum 1 C-Major (BWV 924) from the Klavierbuechlein fuer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, though Sting said little about this adaptation.[58] The album did not have the hit singles like his previous releases. In 2004, he was nominated for the third time for an Academy Award for Best Song,[50] for "You Will Be My Ain True Love", from Cold Mountain, sung in duet with Alison Krauss. The pair performed the song at the 76th Academy Awards.[59]

His autobiography Broken Music was published in October. He embarked on a Sacred Love tour in 2004 with performances by Annie Lennox.[60] Sting went on the Broken Music tour, touring smaller venues, with a four-piece band, starting in Los Angeles on 28 March 2005 and ending on 14 May 2005. Sting was on the 2005 Monkey Business CD by hip-hop group the Black Eyed Peas, singing on "Union", which samples his Englishman in New York. Continuing with Live Aid, he appeared at Live 8 at Hyde Park, London in July 2005.[61]

2006–2010: Experimental albums and the Police reunion

 
Sting with the Police at Madison Square Garden, New York, 1 August 2007

In 2006, Sting was on the Gregg Kofi Brown album, with "Lullaby to an Anxious Child" produced and arranged by Lino Nicolosi and Pino Nicolosi of Nicolosi Productions.[62]

In October 2006, he released an album entitled Songs from the Labyrinth featuring the music of John Dowland (an Elizabethan-era composer) and accompaniment from Bosnian lute player Edin Karamazov. Sting's interpretation of this English Renaissance composer and his cooperation with Edin Karamazov brought recognition in classical music.[63] As promotion of this album, he appeared on the fifth episode of Studio 60 to perform a segment of Dowland's "Come Again" as well as his own "Fields of Gold" in arrangement for voice and two archlutes.

On 11 February 2007, he reunited with Police to open the 2007 Grammy Awards, singing "Roxanne", and announced a reunion tour, the first concert of which was in Vancouver on 28 May 2007 for 22,000 fans. The Police toured for more than a year, beginning with North America and crossing to Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Tickets for the British tour sold out within 30 minutes, the band playing two nights at Twickenham Stadium, southwest London on 8 and 9 September 2007.[64] The last concert was at Madison Square Garden on 7 August 2008, during which his three daughters appeared with him. Toronto documentary producer Vanessa Dylyn, who was producing a film called The Musical Brain, featuring neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, approached Sting about the film. Sting was interested in having his brain scanned while different music was played. "Brand New Day" was the final song of the night for the Neighborhood Ball, one of ten inaugural balls honouring President Barack Obama on Inauguration Day, 20 January 2009. Sting was joined by Stevie Wonder on harmonica.[65]

Sting entered the studio in early February 2009 to begin work on a new album, If on a Winter's Night...,[66] released in October 2009.[67] Initial reviews by fans that had access to early promotional copies were mixed, and some questioned Sting's artistic direction with this album.[68] In 2009, Sting appeared at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concert, playing "Higher Ground" and "Roxanne" with Stevie Wonder and "People Get Ready" with Jeff Beck.[69][70] Sting himself was inducted in 2003, as a member of the Police.[71][72]

In October 2009, Sting played a concert in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, for an arts and cultural festival organised by the Forum of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan Foundation. Despite claiming he thought the concert was sponsored by UNICEF, he faced criticism in the press for receiving a payment of between one and two million pounds from Uzbek president Islam Karimov for the performance. Karimov is accused by the UN and Amnesty of human rights abuses and UNICEF stated they had no connection with the event.[73]

2010–2016: The Last Ship and joint tours with Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel

 
Sting performing in Budapest, 30 June 2011

In 2010–2011, Sting continued his Symphonicity Tour, touring South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South America and Europe.[74] In the second half of 2011, Sting began his Back to Bass Tour, which would continue (with periodic breaks) through 2013.[75] In October 2010, Sting played two concerts in Arnhem, Netherlands, for Symphonica in Rosso. In 2011, Time magazine named Sting one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[76] On 26 April he performed "Every Breath You Take", "Roxanne" and "Desert Rose" at the Time 100 Gala in New York City.[77]

Sting recorded a song called "Power's Out" with Nicole Scherzinger. The song, originally recorded in 2007, was to have been included on Scherzinger's shelved album Her Name is Nicole. The song was released on Scherzinger's 2011 debut album Killer Love. Sting recorded a new version of the song "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" as a duet with Glee actor/singer Matthew Morrison, which appears on Morrison's 2011 eponymous debut album.[78] On 15 September 2011, Sting performed "Fragile" at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, to honour the memory of his friend, financier-philanthropist Herman Sandler, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.[79]

For several years, Sting worked on a musical, The Last Ship, inspired by Sting's own childhood experiences and the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend.[80] The Last Ship tells a story about the demise of the British shipbuilding industry in 1980s Newcastle and debuted in Chicago in June 2014 before transferring to Broadway in the autumn.[81][82][83] Sting's eleventh studio album, titled The Last Ship and inspired by the play, was released on 24 September 2013.[84][85] The album features guest artists with roots in northeast England, including Brian Johnson, vocalist from AC/DC.[86]

 
Sting and Paul Simon on stage at the O2 Arena in London, April 2015

In February 2014, Sting embarked on a joint concert tour titled On Stage Together with Paul Simon, playing 21 concerts in North America.[87] The tour continued in early 2015, with ten shows in Australia and New Zealand,[88][89] and 23 concerts in Europe,[90] ending on 18 April 2015. On 26 June 2015 in Bergen, Norway (at the Bergen Calling Festival), Sting embarked on a 21-date Summer 2015 solo tour of Europe in Trondheim, Norway (at the Olavsfestdagene), visiting Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Sweden.[91]

On 28 August 2015, "Stolen Car", a duet with French singer Mylène Farmer was released.[92] It is a cover from Sting's 2003 seventh solo studio album Sacred Love and will serve as the first single from Farmer's tenth studio album, Interstellaires.[93] On its release, the song went straight to number 1 over French iTunes music download charts, subsequently hitting number 1 on the main French singles chart and giving Sting his first number 1 in France.[94] In 2016, Sting performed a 19-date joint concert summer tour of North America with Peter Gabriel.[95]

2016–2020: 57th & 9th, 44/876 and My Songs

On 18 July 2016, Sting's first rock album in many years was announced. 57th & 9th was released on 11 November 2016. The title is a reference to the New York City intersection he crossed every day to get to the studio where much of the album was recorded.[96][97] It has contributions by long-time band members Vinnie Colaiuta and Dominic Miller, and Jerry Fuentes and Diego Navaira of the Last Bandoleros. The album was produced by Sting's manager, Martin Kierszenbaum. On 9 November 2016, Sting performed two shows at Irving Plaza, in Manhattan, New York City, playing songs from 57th & 9th for the first time live in concert: a "57th & 9th iHeartRadio Album Release Party" show and a Sting Fan Club Member Exclusive Show later that night.[98][99] Named the 57th & 9th Tour, a world tour of theatres, clubs and arenas in support of 57th & 9th (with special guests Joe Sumner and the Last Bandoleros) began on 1 February 2017 in Vancouver at the Commodore Ballroom and continued into October.[100][101]

 
Sting (left) performing with Shaggy at the 2018 Capitals playoff concert

On 4 November 2016, management of the Bataclan theatre announced that Sting would perform an exclusive concert in Paris on 12 November 2016 for the re-opening of the Bataclan, a year after the terrorist attack at the venue.[102] The Police's former guitar player, French native Henry Padovani, joined the band on stage for "Next to You", one of the encores.[nb 1][103]

Sting was announced as the joint winner of the 2017 Polar Music Prize, a Swedish international award given in recognition of excellence in the world of music. The award committee stated: "As a composer, Sting has combined classic pop with virtuoso musicianship and an openness to all genres and sounds from around the world."[6] In 2018, he scheduled a musical and story-telling performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art honouring Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole.[104]

For the first time in 22 years, BMI has a new top song in our repertoire with Sting's timeless hit "Every Breath You Take," a remarkable achievement that solidifies its place in songwriting history.

—BMI President Mike O’Neill in May 2019 on "Every Breath You Take" becoming the most played song in US radio history.[105]

On 7 February 2018, Sting performed as special guest at the Italian Sanremo Music Festival, singing "Muoio per te", the Italian version of "Mad About You", the lyrics of which were written by his friend and colleague Zucchero Fornaciari and "Don't Make Me Wait" with Shaggy. 44/876, Sting and Shaggy's first studio album as a duo,[106] was released in April 2018. On 21 April 2018, Sting was among the artists to perform at The Queen's Birthday Party held at the Royal Albert Hall.[107]

Sting's fourteenth album, titled My Songs, was released on 24 May 2019. The album features 14 studio (and one live) re-recorded versions of his songs released throughout his solo career and his time with the Police.[108][109] In support of the album, a world tour named the My Songs Tour started on 28 May 2019 at La Seine Musicale in Paris and ended on 2 September 2019 at Kit Carson Park in Taos, New Mexico.[110] A 16-date residency from 22 May to 2 September 2020 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada was rescheduled due to COVID-19, with the first date taking place on 29 October 2021.[111][112] His 6 nights at the London Palladium were rescheduled to April 2022.[113]

On 14 April 2020, Sting recorded a duet cover of "Message in a Bottle" with the girl group All Saints.[114] The same year, he appeared on the song "Simple" available on the EP Pausa by Ricky Martin.[115]

2021–present: Duets and The Bridge

On 19 March 2021, Sting released Duets, a compilation album comprising 17 tracks of collaborations with various artists including Eric Clapton, Mary J. Blige, Shaggy, Annie Lennox and Sam Moore.[116] Several titles recorded for the album were ultimately excluded from the release, such as "Simple" in performance with Ricky Martin, "Message in a Bottle" with All Saints, "Spirits" with Pato Banton from the film Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls and "Always on Your Side" in duet with Sheryl Crow.

Sting released his fifteenth studio album The Bridge on 19 November 2021. It was preceded by the release of the lead single "If It's Love" on 1 September 2021. Sting wrote the set of pop-rock songs "in a year of global pandemic, personal loss, separation, disruption, lockdown and extraordinary social and political turmoil".[117][118] On 20 November 2021, Sting's single "What Could Have Been", with Ray Chen, was featured in the third act of the League of Legends animated series Arcane; this single was released the same day.[119][120] Sting then opened The Game Awards 2021 with the song;[121] Todd Marten, for the Los Angeles Times, wrote "The Game Awards began this year with an opening that might have launched the Grammy Awards".[122]

In February 2022, it was announced that Universal Music Group purchased Sting's catalogue of solo works and those with the Police for an undisclosed amount.[123]

In February 2022, Sting collaborated with Swedish DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia, releasing a song and music video titled "Redlight". The song used lyrics from the Police's 1979 hit "Roxanne" with a dark electronic feeling. Sting made an appearance in the music video, the song being part of the new album from Swedish House Mafia titled Paradise Again.[124]

The Wall Street Journal reported that Sting gave a private performance on January 17, 2023 for fifty top Microsoft executives at the 2023 World Economic Forum at Davos. The next day Microsoft announced plans to lay off 10,000 people in what some employees called "as a bad look" for the company. "Some employees thought it wasn’t the right time for a company-sponsored Sting concert," wrote Tom Dotan and Sam Schechner. "The theme of the event was sustainability."[125] The event quickly went viral. “The message in a bottle was you’re fired,” read one tweet, referring to the 1979 Police hit “Message in a Bottle.”[126]

Activism

 
Sting with Chief Raoni in Paris, April 1989

Sting's involvement in human rights began in September 1981, when Martin Lewis included him in the fourth Amnesty International gala, The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, a benefit show co-founded by Monty Python member John Cleese.[127] Sting states, "before [the Ball] I did not know about Amnesty, I did not know about its work, I did not know about torture in the world."[128] Following the example set at the 1979 show by Pete Townshend, Sting performed "Roxanne" and "Message in a Bottle" appearing on all four nights at Theatre Royal in London. He also led other musicians (The Secret Police) including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Donovan, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in the finale – Sting's reggae-tinged arrangement of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released". The event was the first time that Sting worked with Geldof. His association with Amnesty continued throughout the 1980s and beyond and he took part in Amnesty's human rights concerts.[129]

Sting had shown his interest in social and political issues in his 1980 song "Driven to Tears", an indictment of apathy to world hunger. In November 1984, he joined Band Aid, a charity supergroup primarily made up of the biggest British and Irish musicians of the era, and sang on "Do They Know It's Christmas?" which was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London.[130] This led to the Live Aid concert in July 1985 at Wembley Stadium, in which Sting performed with Phil Collins and Dire Straits.[42] On 2 July 2005, Sting performed at the Live 8 concert at Hyde Park, London, the follow-up to 1985's Live Aid.[61] In 1984, Sting sang a re-worded version of "Every Breath You Take", titled "Every Bomb You Make" for episode 12 of the first series of the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image. The video for the song shows the puppets of world leaders and political figures of the day, usually with the figure matching the altered lyrics.[131]

In June 1986, Sting reunited with the Police for the last three shows of Amnesty's six-date A Conspiracy of Hope concerts in the US. The day after the final concert, he told NBC's Today Show: "I've been a member of Amnesty and a support member for five years."[132] In 1988, he joined musicians including Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen for a six-week Human Rights Now! tour commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[129]

With his wife, Trudie Styler and Raoni Metuktire, a Kayapo Indian leader in Brazil, Sting founded the Rainforest Foundation Fund to help save the rainforests and protect indigenous peoples there. In 1989, he flew to the Altamira Gathering to offer support while promoting his charity.[133] His support continues and includes an annual benefit concert at Carnegie Hall, which has featured Billy Joel, Elton John, James Taylor and others. A species of Colombian tree frog, Dendropsophus stingi, was named after him for his "commitment and efforts to save the rainforest".[134] In 1988, the single "They Dance Alone (Cueca Sola)" chronicled the plight of the mothers, wives and daughters of the "disappeared", political opponents killed by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.[135]

 
Sting signing a petition in Minsk in 2010 against the death penalty in Belarus, the only European country that still practises it.

On 15 September 1997, Sting joined Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Phil Collins and Mark Knopfler at London's Royal Albert Hall for Music for Montserrat, a benefit for the Caribbean island devastated by a volcano. Sting and Styler were awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award in Sherborn, Massachusetts, on 30 June 2000.[136] In September 2001, Sting took part in America: A Tribute to Heroes singing "Fragile" to raise money for families of victims of the 9/11 attacks in the US.[137] In February 2005, Sting performed the Leeuwin Estate Concert Series in Western Australia: the concert raised $4 million for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami relief.[138][139][140]

In 2007, Sting joined Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland for the closing set at the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Joined by John Mayer and Kanye West, Sting and the Police ended the show singing "Message in a Bottle"[141] In 2008 Sting contributed to Songs for Tibet to support Tibet and the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.[142] On 22 January 2010, Sting performed "Driven to Tears" during Hope for Haiti Now.[143] On 25 April 2010, he performed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in the 40th anniversary celebration of Earth Day.[144] Sting is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.[145] In 2010, he became a Patron of the poverty alleviation and beekeeping charity Bees for Development.[146]

In 2011, Sting joined more than 30 others in an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron for "immediate decriminalisation of drug possession" if a policy review showed it had failed. Sting was quoted: "Giving young people criminal records for minor drug possession serves little purpose — it is time to think of more imaginative ways of addressing drug use in our society."[147]

On 4 July 2011, Sting cancelled a concert for the Astana Day Festival in Astana, Kazakhstan. Amnesty International convinced him to cancel due to concerns over the rights of Kazakh oil and gas workers and their families. On 2 November 2012, Sting appeared on Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together and sang a version of "Message in a Bottle" to raise funds for those affected by a storm on the east coast of the US that week. The show reportedly raised $23 million.[148] Sting also participated as a co-host and musician during the day-long 2015 Norwegian TV campaign, dedicated to the preservation of the rainforest.[149]

In August 2014, Sting was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to reject Scottish independence from the UK in September's referendum on the issue.[150]

Sting publicly opposed Brexit and supported remaining in the European Union. On 23 June 2016, in a non-binding referendum, the British public voted to leave. In October 2018, Sting was among a group of British musicians who signed an open letter sent to then Prime Minister Theresa May, drafted by Bob Geldof, calling for "a 2nd vote", stating that Brexit will "impact every aspect of the music industry. From touring to sales, to copyright legislation to royalty collation", the letter added: "We dominate the market and our bands, singers, musicians, writers, producers and engineers work all over Europe and the world and, in turn, Europe and the world come to us. Why? Because we are brilliant at it ... [Our music] reaches out, all inclusive, and embraces anyone and everyone. And that truly is what Britain is."[151]

In January 2018, it was reported that Sting had joined the board of advisors of an impact investing fund of JANA Partners LLC named JANA Impact Capital, aimed at serving environmental and social causes.[152] On 6 January 2018, JANA Partners, together with the California State Teachers' Retirement System issued a public letter imploring Apple Inc. to take a more responsible approach towards smartphone addiction among children. The letter cited several pieces of evidence that show that smartphone use by children increases the risk of their having mental health problems and worsens academic performance.[153]

Personal life

 
Sting with his 2014 Kennedy Center Honoree Medallion, on 6 December 2014

Sting married actress Frances Tomelty on 1 May 1976. They had two children: Joseph (b. 23 Nov 1976), and Fuschia Katherine "Kate" (b. 17 Apr 1982) Sumner. In 1980, Sting became a tax exile[154][155][156] in Galway, Ireland. In 1982, after the birth of his second child, he separated from Tomelty.[157] Tomelty and Sting divorced in 1984[158] following Sting's affair with actress Trudie Styler.[159] The split was controversial; as The Independent reported in 2006, Tomelty "just happened to be Trudie's best friend (Sting and Frances lived next door to Trudie in Bayswater, west London, for several years before the two of them became lovers)".[160]

Sting married Styler at Camden Registry Office on 20 August 1992, and the couple had their wedding blessed two days later in the twelfth-century parish church of St Andrew in Great Durnford, Wiltshire, south-west England.[157] Sting and Styler have four children: Brigitte Michael “Mickey” (b. 19 Jan 1984), Jake (b. 24 May 1985), Eliot Paulina "Coco" (b. 30 Jul 1990), and Giacomo Luke (b. 17 Dec 1995) Sumner. Coco is founder and lead singer of the group I Blame Coco. Giacomo Luke is the inspiration behind the name of Kentucky Derby-winning horse Giacomo.[161]

In April 2009, the Sunday Times Rich List estimated Sting's wealth at £175 million and ranked him the 322nd wealthiest person in Britain.[162] A decade later, Sting was estimated to have a fortune of £320 million in the 2019 Sunday Times Rich List, making him one of the ten wealthiest people in the British music industry.[163]

Both of Sting's parents died of cancer: his mother in 1986 and his father in 1987. He did not attend either funeral, in order not to draw media attention to them.[164]

In 1995, Sting gave evidence in court against his former accountant (Keith Moore), who had misappropriated £6 million of his money. Moore was jailed for six years.[165] Sting owns several homes worldwide, including Lake House and its sixty-acre estate near Salisbury, Wiltshire; a New York City flat (which was once owned by Billy Joel) and the Villa Il Palagio estate in Figline Valdarno, Tuscany.[166] He owned a house in Highgate, 2 The Grove for a number of years, which had previously been the former home of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin.[167]

 
Garry Kasparov and Sting in Times Square, New York, 2000

For much of his life, Sting's spare time interests and activities have revolved around mental and physical fitness. For many years, he ran five miles (8 km) a day and also performed aerobics. He participated in running races at Parliament Hill and charity runs (including the Race Against Time for Sport Aid in both 1986 and 1988). Around 1990, Danny Paradise introduced him to yoga and he began practising the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga series, though he now practises Tantra and Jivamukti Yoga as well.[168] He wrote a foreword to Yoga Beyond Belief,[169] written by Ganga White in 2007. In 2008, he was reported to practise Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation technique.[170] He also practices pilates regularly.[171]

Sting's affinity with yoga contributed to a rumour about his sexual prowess, including a purported eight hours of sex with Styler.[172][173] The story stems from an interview with Sting and Bob Geldof. A journalist asked "how do you perform in bed?" and Geldof remarked that he was a "three-minute man" but Sting could last for hours thanks to yoga.[174]

Also a keen chess player, Sting played chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in an exhibition game in 2000, along with four bandmates: Dominic Miller, Jason Rebello, Chris Botti and Russ Irwin. Kasparov beat all five simultaneously within fifty minutes.[175]

In 1969, Sting read the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake and later bought the film rights. He named pets, a racehorse, his publishing company and one of his daughters (Fuschia, in the books actually Fuchsia) after characters from the books.[176]

Sting supports his hometown Premier League football club Newcastle United and in 2009 backed a supporters' campaign against the plan of owner Mike Ashley to sell off naming rights of the club's home stadium St James' Park.[177] He wrote a song in support of Newcastle, called "Black and White Army (Bringing The Pride Back Home)".[178]

In a 2011 interview in Time, Sting said that he was agnostic and that the certainties of religious faith were dangerous.[24]

In August 2013, Sting donated money to The Friends of Tynemouth Outdoor Pool to regenerate the 1920s lido at the southern end of Longsands Beach in Tynemouth, northeast England, a few miles from where he was born.[179]

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Sting

Discography

Main article: Sting discography
See also: The Police discography and List of songs recorded by the Police

Studio albums

Filmography

Sting has also ventured into acting. Film, television and radio roles include:

As actor

As himself

Sting narrated the American premiere of the musical Yanomamo (1983), by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon, outlining problems that existed in the Amazon rainforest. This was made into a film and later broadcast as Song of the Forest. He also provided the voice of Zarm on the 1990s television show Captain Planet and the Planeteers. In 1989 he starred as Macheath (Mack the Knife) in John Dexter's Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera. Sting also appeared as himself in the video game Guitar Hero World Tour. In 2018, Sting voiced the narrator of Where the Water Tastes Like Wine.

Theatre

Broadway

Year Title Notes
1982 Rock 'N Roll! The First 5,000 Years Writer: "Message in a Bottle"
1989 3 Penny Opera Role: Macheath
2014 The Last Ship Music and lyrics

Role: Jackie White

Publications

  • Broken Music. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2003. ISBN 0-7434-5081-7.
  • Lyrics by – Sting. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2007. ISBN 978-1-84737-167-6.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ About the 2016 Bataclan re-opening show, Sting stated: "In re-opening the Bataclan, we have two important tasks to reconcile. First, to remember and honour those who lost their lives in the attack a year ago, and second to celebrate the life and the music that this historic theatre represents. In doing so we hope to respect the memory as well as the life affirming spirit of those who fell. We shall not forget them."[103]

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Gordon Sumner redirects here For the Australian rules footballer see Gordon Sumner footballer For the professional wrestler known as Sting see Sting wrestler For other uses see Sting Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE born 2 October 1951 known as Sting is an English musician and actor He was the frontman songwriter and bassist for new wave rock 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 4 StingCBESting performing at The Queen s Birthday Party in 2018BornGordon Matthew Thomas Sumner 1951 10 02 2 October 1951 age 71 Wallsend EnglandAlma materNorthern Counties College of EducationOccupationsMusiciansingersongwriteractorYears active1971 presentSpousesFrances Tomelty m 1976 div 1984 wbr Trudie Styler m 1992 wbr Children6 including Joe Mickey and EliotAwardsFull listMusical careerGenresRockpopnew wavepost punkskareggaejazzworldsoft rock 1 2 3 Instrument s Vocalsbass guitarguitardouble basskeyboardsLabelsA amp MDeutsche GrammophonUniversalCherrytreeInterscopePolydorFormerly ofThe PoliceWebsitesting wbr comSignatureAs 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 5 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 6 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 7 In 2006 Paste ranked him 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters 8 He was 63rd of VH1 s 100 greatest artists of rock 9 and 80th of Q magazine s 100 greatest musical stars of the 20th century 10 He has collaborated with other musicians on songs such as Money for Nothing with Dire Straits Rise amp Fall with Craig David All for Love with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart You Will Be My Ain True Love with Alison Krauss and introduced the North African music genre rai to Western audiences through the hit song Desert Rose with Cheb Mami 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 Contents 1 Early life 2 Musical career 2 1 1977 1984 The Police and early solo work 2 2 1985 1989 Solo debut 2 3 1990 1997 Greater solo success 2 4 1998 2005 Brand New Day and soundtrack work 2 5 2006 2010 Experimental albums and the Police reunion 2 6 2010 2016 The Last Ship and joint tours with Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel 2 7 2016 2020 57th amp 9th 44 876 and My Songs 2 8 2021 present Duets and The Bridge 3 Activism 4 Personal life 5 Awards and nominations 6 Discography 6 1 Studio albums 7 Filmography 8 Theatre 8 1 Broadway 9 Publications 10 See also 11 Notes 12 References 13 Bibliography 14 External linksEarly life Edit Wallsend shipyard circa 1964 near where Sting grew up His childhood experiences and the local shipbuilding industry was the inspiration for his 2014 musical The Last Ship which is also set in Wallsend Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born at Sir G B Hunter Memorial Hospital in Wallsend Northumberland England on 2 October 1951 11 12 13 the eldest of four children of Audrey nee Cowell a hairdresser and Ernest Matthew Sumner a milkman and engineer He grew up near Wallsend s shipyards which made an impression on him As a child he was inspired by the Queen waving at him from a Rolls Royce to divert from the shipyard prospect towards a more glamorous life 14 15 He helped his father deliver milk and by ten was obsessed with an old Spanish guitar left by an emigrating friend of his father 16 He 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 17 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 18 He taught at St Paul s First School in Cramlington for two years 19 Sting performed jazz in the evenings on weekends and during breaks from college and teaching playing with the Phoenix Jazzmen Newcastle Big Band and Last Exit 20 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 21 22 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 23 In 2011 he told Time that I was never called Gordon You could shout Gordon in the street and I would just move out of your way 24 Musical career Edit1977 1984 The Police and early solo work Edit Main article The Police In January 1977 Sting moved from Newcastle to London and joined Stewart Copeland and Henry Padovani soon replaced by Andy Summers to form the Police From 1978 to 1983 they had five UK chart topping albums won six Grammy Awards and won two Brit Awards for Best British Group and for Outstanding Contribution to Music 25 26 Their initial sound was punk inspired but they switched to reggae rock and minimalist pop Their final album Synchronicity was nominated for five Grammy Awards including Album of the Year in 1983 It included their most successful song Every Breath You Take written by Sting Even though logic would say Are you out of your mind You re in the biggest band in the world just bite the bullet and make some money But there continued to be some instinct against logic against good advice that told me I should quit Sting on quitting the band in 1984 27 According to Sting appearing in the documentary Last Play at Shea he decided to leave the Police while onstage during a concert of 18 August 1983 at Shea Stadium in New York City because he felt that playing that venue was Mount Everest 28 While never formally breaking up after Synchronicity the group agreed to concentrate on solo projects 29 As the years went by the band members especially Sting dismissed the possibility of reforming In 2007 however the band did reform and undertook a reunion tour 30 Four of the band s five studio albums appeared on Rolling Stone s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and two of the band s songs Every Breath You Take and Roxanne each written by Sting appeared on Rolling Stone s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time 31 In addition Every Breath You Take and Roxanne were among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll In 2003 the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 32 They were also included in Rolling Stone s and VH1 s lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time 33 34 In 1978 Sting collaborated with members of Hawkwind and Gong as the Radio Actors on the one off single Nuclear Waste 35 In September 1981 Sting made his first live solo appearance on all four nights of the fourth Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman s Other Ball in London s Drury Lane theatre at the invitation of producer Martin Lewis He performed solo versions of Roxanne and Message in a Bottle He also led an all star band dubbed the Secret Police on his own arrangement of Bob Dylan s I Shall Be Released The band and chorus included Eric Clapton Jeff Beck Phil Collins Bob Geldof and Midge Ure all of whom except Beck later worked on Live Aid His performances were in the album and movie of the show The Secret Policeman s Other Ball began his growing involvement in political and social causes In 1982 he released a solo single Spread a Little Happiness from the film of the Dennis Potter television play Brimstone and Treacle The song was a reinterpretation of the 1920s musical Mr Cinders by Vivian Ellis and a Top 20 hit in the UK 36 1985 1989 Solo debut Edit Sting performing in Norway in 1985 His first solo album 1985 s The Dream of the Blue Turtles featured jazz musicians including Kenny Kirkland Darryl Jones Omar Hakim and Branford Marsalis It included the hit singles If You Love Somebody Set Them Free backed with the non LP song Another Day Fortress Around Your Heart Love Is the Seventh Wave and Russians the latter of which was based on a theme from the Lieutenant Kije Suite 37 Within a year the album reached Triple Platinum The album received Grammy nominations for Album of the Year Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Best Jazz Instrumental Performance and Best Engineered Recording 38 In November 1984 Sting was part of Band Aid s Do They Know It s Christmas which raised money for famine victims in Ethiopia 39 Released in June 1985 Sting sang the line I Want My MTV on Money for Nothing by Dire Straits 40 In July 1985 Sting performed Police hits at the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium in London He also joined Dire Straits in Money for Nothing and he sang two duets with Phil Collins 41 42 In 1985 Sting provided spoken vocals for the Miles Davis album You re Under Arrest taking the role of a French speaking police officer He also sang backing vocals on Arcadia s single The Promise on two songs from Phil Collins album No Jacket Required and contributed Mack the Knife to the Hal Willner produced tribute album Lost in the Stars The Music of Kurt Weill In September 1985 he performed If You Love Somebody Set Them Free at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in New York 43 The 1985 film Bring On the Night directed by Michael Apted documented the formation of his solo band and its first concert in France 44 Sting and Bono at the Conspiracy of Hope concert in New Jersey 1986 Sting released Nothing Like the Sun in 1987 including singles We ll Be Together Fragile Englishman in New York and Be Still My Beating Heart dedicated to his mother who had recently died It went Double Platinum The Secret Marriage from this album was adapted from Hanns Eisler and Englishman in New York was about Quentin Crisp The album s title is from William Shakespeare s Sonnet 130 45 The album won Best British Album at the 1988 Brit Awards and in 1989 received three Grammy nominations including his second consecutive nomination for Album of the Year Be Still My Beating Heart earned nominations for Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance In 1989 Nothing Like the Sun was ranked number 90 and his Police album Synchronicity was ranked number 17 on Rolling Stone s 100 greatest albums of the 1980s 46 In February 1988 he made Nada como el sol four songs from Nothing like the Sun he sang in Spanish and Portuguese In 1987 jazz arranger Gil Evans placed him in a big band setting for a live album of Sting s songs and on Frank Zappa s 1988 Broadway the Hard Way he performed an arrangement of Murder by Numbers set to Stolen Moments by Oliver Nelson and dedicated to evangelist Jimmy Swaggart In October 1988 he recorded a version of Igor Stravinsky s The Soldier s Tale with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Kent Nagano It featured Vanessa Redgrave Ian McKellen Gianna Nannini and Sting as the soldier 47 1990 1997 Greater solo success Edit His 1991 album The Soul Cages was dedicated to his late father It included All This Time and the Grammy winning title track The album went Platinum The album also included an Italian version of Mad About You The text was written by his friend Zucchero Fornaciari The song was then included in Overdose d amore The Ballads 1999 and in Zu amp Co 2004 of the Italian bluesman The following year he married Trudie Styler and was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from Northumbria University In 1991 he appeared on Two Rooms Celebrating the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin He performed Come Down in Time for the album which also features other popular artists and their renditions of John Taupin songs In England our house is surrounded by barley fields and in the summer it s fascinating to watch the wind moving over the shimmering surface like waves on an ocean of gold There s something inherently sexy about the sight something primal as if the wind were making love to the barley Lovers have made promises here I m sure their bonds strengthened by the comforting cycle of the seasons Sting on the Fields of Gold lyrics 48 Sting s fourth album Ten Summoner s Tales peaked at two in the UK and US album charts in 1993 and went triple platinum in just over a year 36 49 The album was recorded at his Elizabethan country home Lake House in Wiltshire Ten Summoner s Tales was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1993 and for the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1994 The title is a wordplay on his surname Sumner and The Summoner s Tale one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Hit singles on the album include Fields of Gold a song inspired by the barley fields next to his Wiltshire home with the music video featuring a silhouette of Sting walking through a village containing common features seen throughout the UK during that time such as a red telephone box and If I Ever Lose My Faith in You the latter earning his second award for best male pop singer at the 36th Grammy Awards 50 In May 1993 he covered his own Police song from the Ghost in the Machine album Demolition Man for the Demolition Man film With Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart Sting performed All for Love for the film The Three Musketeers The song stayed at the top of the U S charts for three weeks topped multiple other charts worldwide and reached number two in the UK In February he won two Grammy Awards and was nominated for three more 50 Berklee College of Music awarded him his second honorary doctorate of music in May In November he released the compilation Fields of Gold The Best of Sting which was certified Double Platinum That year he sang with Vanessa Williams on Sister Moon and appeared on her album The Sweetest Days At the 1994 Brit Awards in London he was Best British Male 51 Sting s 1996 album Mercury Falling debuted strongly with the single Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot reaching No 15 in the UK Singles Chart but the album soon dropped from the charts He reached the UK Top 40 with two further singles the same year with You Still Touch Me 27 in June and I Was Brought To My Senses 31 in December The song I m So Happy I Can t Stop Crying from this album also became a US country music hit in 1997 in a version with Toby Keith Sting recorded music for the Disney film Kingdom of the Sun which was reworked into The Emperor s New Groove The film s overhauls and plot changes were documented by Sting s wife Trudie Styler as the changes resulted in some songs not being used 52 Also in 1996 he sang for the Tina Turner single On Silent Wings as a part of her Wildest Dreams album In the same year his performance with the Brazilian composer artist Tom Jobim in How Insensitive was in the AIDS benefit album Red Hot Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization Sting cooperated with Greek singer George Dalaras in a concert in Athens Moonlight a rare jazz performance by Sting for the 1995 remake of Sabrina written by Alan Bergman Marilyn Bergman and John Williams was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television On 4 September 1997 Sting performed I ll Be Missing You with Puff Daddy at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards in tribute to Notorious B I G 53 On 15 September 1997 Sting appeared at the Music for Montserrat concert at the Royal Albert Hall London performing with fellow English artists Paul McCartney Elton John Eric Clapton Phil Collins and Mark Knopfler 54 1998 2005 Brand New Day and soundtrack work Edit Sting on stage in Budapest in January 2000 A period of relative musical inactivity followed from 1997 before Sting eventually re emerged in September 1999 with a new album Brand New Day which gave him two more UK Top 20 hits in the title track Brand New Day a UK No 13 hit featuring Stevie Wonder on harmonica and Desert Rose a UK No 15 hit The album went Triple Platinum by January 2001 In 2000 he won Grammy Awards for Brand New Day and the song of the same name At the awards ceremony he performed Desert Rose with his collaborator on the album version Cheb Mami In 2000 the soundtrack for The Emperor s New Groove was released with complete songs from the previous version of the film The final single used to promote the film My Funny Friend and Me was Sting s first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Song 50 In February 2001 he won another Grammy for She Walks This Earth Soberana Rosa on A Love Affair The Music Of Ivan Lins His After the Rain Has Fallen made it into the Top 40 His next project was a live album at his villa in Figline Valdarno released as a CD and DVD as well as being broadcast on the internet The CD and DVD were to be entitled On Such a Night and intended to feature re workings of Sting favourites such as Roxanne and If You Love Somebody Set Them Free The concert scheduled for 11 September 2001 was altered due to the terrorist attacks in America that day The webcast shut after one song a reworked version of Fragile after which Sting let the audience decide whether to continue the show They decided to go ahead and the album and DVD appeared in November as All This Time dedicated to all those who lost their lives on that day He performed Fragile with Yo Yo Ma and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Utah US 55 In 2002 he won a Golden Globe Award for Until from the film Kate amp Leopold 50 Written and performed by him Until was his second nomination for an Academy Award for Best Song 50 At the 2002 Brit Awards in February Sting received the prize for Outstanding Contribution to Music 51 In May 2002 he received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters Composers and Authors 56 In June he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame In the Queen s Birthday Honours 2003 Sting was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire For services to the Music Industry 57 At the 54th Primetime Emmy Awards in September Sting won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety Or Music Program for his A amp E special Sting in Tuscany All This Time 50 In 2003 Sting released Sacred Love a studio album featuring collaborations with hip hop artist Mary J Blige and sitar performer Anoushka Shankar He and Blige won a Grammy for their duet Whenever I Say Your Name The song is based on Johann Sebastian Bach s Praeambulum 1 C Major BWV 924 from the Klavierbuechlein fuer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach though Sting said little about this adaptation 58 The album did not have the hit singles like his previous releases In 2004 he was nominated for the third time for an Academy Award for Best Song 50 for You Will Be My Ain True Love from Cold Mountain sung in duet with Alison Krauss The pair performed the song at the 76th Academy Awards 59 His autobiography Broken Music was published in October He embarked on a Sacred Love tour in 2004 with performances by Annie Lennox 60 Sting went on the Broken Music tour touring smaller venues with a four piece band starting in Los Angeles on 28 March 2005 and ending on 14 May 2005 Sting was on the 2005 Monkey Business CD by hip hop group the Black Eyed Peas singing on Union which samples his Englishman in New York Continuing with Live Aid he appeared at Live 8 at Hyde Park London in July 2005 61 2006 2010 Experimental albums and the Police reunion Edit Sting with the Police at Madison Square Garden New York 1 August 2007 In 2006 Sting was on the Gregg Kofi Brown album with Lullaby to an Anxious Child produced and arranged by Lino Nicolosi and Pino Nicolosi of Nicolosi Productions 62 In October 2006 he released an album entitled Songs from the Labyrinth featuring the music of John Dowland an Elizabethan era composer and accompaniment from Bosnian lute player Edin Karamazov Sting s interpretation of this English Renaissance composer and his cooperation with Edin Karamazov brought recognition in classical music 63 As promotion of this album he appeared on the fifth episode of Studio 60 to perform a segment of Dowland s Come Again as well as his own Fields of Gold in arrangement for voice and two archlutes On 11 February 2007 he reunited with Police to open the 2007 Grammy Awards singing Roxanne and announced a reunion tour the first concert of which was in Vancouver on 28 May 2007 for 22 000 fans The Police toured for more than a year beginning with North America and crossing to Europe South America Australia New Zealand and Japan Tickets for the British tour sold out within 30 minutes the band playing two nights at Twickenham Stadium southwest London on 8 and 9 September 2007 64 The last concert was at Madison Square Garden on 7 August 2008 during which his three daughters appeared with him Toronto documentary producer Vanessa Dylyn who was producing a film called The Musical Brain featuring neuroscientist Daniel Levitin approached Sting about the film Sting was interested in having his brain scanned while different music was played Brand New Day was the final song of the night for the Neighborhood Ball one of ten inaugural balls honouring President Barack Obama on Inauguration Day 20 January 2009 Sting was joined by Stevie Wonder on harmonica 65 Sting entered the studio in early February 2009 to begin work on a new album If on a Winter s Night 66 released in October 2009 67 Initial reviews by fans that had access to early promotional copies were mixed and some questioned Sting s artistic direction with this album 68 In 2009 Sting appeared at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concert playing Higher Ground and Roxanne with Stevie Wonder and People Get Ready with Jeff Beck 69 70 Sting himself was inducted in 2003 as a member of the Police 71 72 In October 2009 Sting played a concert in Tashkent Uzbekistan for an arts and cultural festival organised by the Forum of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan Foundation Despite claiming he thought the concert was sponsored by UNICEF he faced criticism in the press for receiving a payment of between one and two million pounds from Uzbek president Islam Karimov for the performance Karimov is accused by the UN and Amnesty of human rights abuses and UNICEF stated they had no connection with the event 73 2010 2016 The Last Ship and joint tours with Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel Edit Sting performing in Budapest 30 June 2011 In 2010 2011 Sting continued his Symphonicity Tour touring South Korea Japan Australia New Zealand South America and Europe 74 In the second half of 2011 Sting began his Back to Bass Tour which would continue with periodic breaks through 2013 75 In October 2010 Sting played two concerts in Arnhem Netherlands for Symphonica in Rosso In 2011 Time magazine named Sting one of the 100 most influential people in the world 76 On 26 April he performed Every Breath You Take Roxanne and Desert Rose at the Time 100 Gala in New York City 77 Sting recorded a song called Power s Out with Nicole Scherzinger The song originally recorded in 2007 was to have been included on Scherzinger s shelved album Her Name is Nicole The song was released on Scherzinger s 2011 debut album Killer Love Sting recorded a new version of the song Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot as a duet with Glee actor singer Matthew Morrison which appears on Morrison s 2011 eponymous debut album 78 On 15 September 2011 Sting performed Fragile at the 92nd Street Y in New York City to honour the memory of his friend financier philanthropist Herman Sandler who died in the 9 11 attacks on the World Trade Center 79 For several years Sting worked on a musical The Last Ship inspired by Sting s own childhood experiences and the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend 80 The Last Ship tells a story about the demise of the British shipbuilding industry in 1980s Newcastle and debuted in Chicago in June 2014 before transferring to Broadway in the autumn 81 82 83 Sting s eleventh studio album titled The Last Ship and inspired by the play was released on 24 September 2013 84 85 The album features guest artists with roots in northeast England including Brian Johnson vocalist from AC DC 86 Sting and Paul Simon on stage at the O2 Arena in London April 2015 In February 2014 Sting embarked on a joint concert tour titled On Stage Together with Paul Simon playing 21 concerts in North America 87 The tour continued in early 2015 with ten shows in Australia and New Zealand 88 89 and 23 concerts in Europe 90 ending on 18 April 2015 On 26 June 2015 in Bergen Norway at the Bergen Calling Festival Sting embarked on a 21 date Summer 2015 solo tour of Europe in Trondheim Norway at the Olavsfestdagene visiting Denmark France Germany Spain Portugal Italy and Sweden 91 On 28 August 2015 Stolen Car a duet with French singer Mylene Farmer was released 92 It is a cover from Sting s 2003 seventh solo studio album Sacred Love and will serve as the first single from Farmer s tenth studio album Interstellaires 93 On its release the song went straight to number 1 over French iTunes music download charts subsequently hitting number 1 on the main French singles chart and giving Sting his first number 1 in France 94 In 2016 Sting performed a 19 date joint concert summer tour of North America with Peter Gabriel 95 2016 2020 57th amp 9th 44 876 and My Songs Edit On 18 July 2016 Sting s first rock album in many years was announced 57th amp 9th was released on 11 November 2016 The title is a reference to the New York City intersection he crossed every day to get to the studio where much of the album was recorded 96 97 It has contributions by long time band members Vinnie Colaiuta and Dominic Miller and Jerry Fuentes and Diego Navaira of the Last Bandoleros The album was produced by Sting s manager Martin Kierszenbaum On 9 November 2016 Sting performed two shows at Irving Plaza in Manhattan New York City playing songs from 57th amp 9th for the first time live in concert a 57th amp 9th iHeartRadio Album Release Party show and a Sting Fan Club Member Exclusive Show later that night 98 99 Named the 57th amp 9th Tour a world tour of theatres clubs and arenas in support of 57th amp 9th with special guests Joe Sumner and the Last Bandoleros began on 1 February 2017 in Vancouver at the Commodore Ballroom and continued into October 100 101 Sting left performing with Shaggy at the 2018 Capitals playoff concert On 4 November 2016 management of the Bataclan theatre announced that Sting would perform an exclusive concert in Paris on 12 November 2016 for the re opening of the Bataclan a year after the terrorist attack at the venue 102 The Police s former guitar player French native Henry Padovani joined the band on stage for Next to You one of the encores nb 1 103 Sting was announced as the joint winner of the 2017 Polar Music Prize a Swedish international award given in recognition of excellence in the world of music The award committee stated As a composer Sting has combined classic pop with virtuoso musicianship and an openness to all genres and sounds from around the world 6 In 2018 he scheduled a musical and story telling performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art honouring Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole 104 For the first time in 22 years BMI has a new top song in our repertoire with Sting s timeless hit Every Breath You Take a remarkable achievement that solidifies its place in songwriting history BMI President Mike O Neill in May 2019 on Every Breath You Take becoming the most played song in US radio history 105 On 7 February 2018 Sting performed as special guest at the Italian Sanremo Music Festival singing Muoio per te the Italian version of Mad About You the lyrics of which were written by his friend and colleague Zucchero Fornaciari and Don t Make Me Wait with Shaggy 44 876 Sting and Shaggy s first studio album as a duo 106 was released in April 2018 On 21 April 2018 Sting was among the artists to perform at The Queen s Birthday Party held at the Royal Albert Hall 107 Sting s fourteenth album titled My Songs was released on 24 May 2019 The album features 14 studio and one live re recorded versions of his songs released throughout his solo career and his time with the Police 108 109 In support of the album a world tour named the My Songs Tour started on 28 May 2019 at La Seine Musicale in Paris and ended on 2 September 2019 at Kit Carson Park in Taos New Mexico 110 A 16 date residency from 22 May to 2 September 2020 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas Nevada was rescheduled due to COVID 19 with the first date taking place on 29 October 2021 111 112 His 6 nights at the London Palladium were rescheduled to April 2022 113 On 14 April 2020 Sting recorded a duet cover of Message in a Bottle with the girl group All Saints 114 The same year he appeared on the song Simple available on the EP Pausa by Ricky Martin 115 2021 present Duets and The Bridge Edit On 19 March 2021 Sting released Duets a compilation album comprising 17 tracks of collaborations with various artists including Eric Clapton Mary J Blige Shaggy Annie Lennox and Sam Moore 116 Several titles recorded for the album were ultimately excluded from the release such as Simple in performance with Ricky Martin Message in a Bottle with All Saints Spirits with Pato Banton from the film Ace Ventura When Nature Calls and Always on Your Side in duet with Sheryl Crow Sting released his fifteenth studio album The Bridge on 19 November 2021 It was preceded by the release of the lead single If It s Love on 1 September 2021 Sting wrote the set of pop rock songs in a year of global pandemic personal loss separation disruption lockdown and extraordinary social and political turmoil 117 118 On 20 November 2021 Sting s single What Could Have Been with Ray Chen was featured in the third act of the League of Legends animated series Arcane this single was released the same day 119 120 Sting then opened The Game Awards 2021 with the song 121 Todd Marten for the Los Angeles Times wrote The Game Awards began this year with an opening that might have launched the Grammy Awards 122 In February 2022 it was announced that Universal Music Group purchased Sting s catalogue of solo works and those with the Police for an undisclosed amount 123 In February 2022 Sting collaborated with Swedish DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia releasing a song and music video titled Redlight The song used lyrics from the Police s 1979 hit Roxanne with a dark electronic feeling Sting made an appearance in the music video the song being part of the new album from Swedish House Mafia titled Paradise Again 124 The Wall Street Journal reported that Sting gave a private performance on January 17 2023 for fifty top Microsoft executives at the 2023 World Economic Forum at Davos The next day Microsoft announced plans to lay off 10 000 people in what some employees called as a bad look for the company Some employees thought it wasn t the right time for a company sponsored Sting concert wrote Tom Dotan and Sam Schechner The theme of the event was sustainability 125 The event quickly went viral The message in a bottle was you re fired read one tweet referring to the 1979 Police hit Message in a Bottle 126 Activism Edit Sting with Chief Raoni in Paris April 1989 Sting s involvement in human rights began in September 1981 when Martin Lewis included him in the fourth Amnesty International gala The Secret Policeman s Other Ball a benefit show co founded by Monty Python member John Cleese 127 Sting states before the Ball I did not know about Amnesty I did not know about its work I did not know about torture in the world 128 Following the example set at the 1979 show by Pete Townshend Sting performed Roxanne and Message in a Bottle appearing on all four nights at Theatre Royal in London He also led other musicians The Secret Police including Eric Clapton Jeff Beck Phil Collins Donovan Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in the finale Sting s reggae tinged arrangement of Bob Dylan s I Shall Be Released The event was the first time that Sting worked with Geldof His association with Amnesty continued throughout the 1980s and beyond and he took part in Amnesty s human rights concerts 129 Sting had shown his interest in social and political issues in his 1980 song Driven to Tears an indictment of apathy to world hunger In November 1984 he joined Band Aid a charity supergroup primarily made up of the biggest British and Irish musicians of the era and sang on Do They Know It s Christmas which was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill London 130 This led to the Live Aid concert in July 1985 at Wembley Stadium in which Sting performed with Phil Collins and Dire Straits 42 On 2 July 2005 Sting performed at the Live 8 concert at Hyde Park London the follow up to 1985 s Live Aid 61 In 1984 Sting sang a re worded version of Every Breath You Take titled Every Bomb You Make for episode 12 of the first series of the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image The video for the song shows the puppets of world leaders and political figures of the day usually with the figure matching the altered lyrics 131 In June 1986 Sting reunited with the Police for the last three shows of Amnesty s six date A Conspiracy of Hope concerts in the US The day after the final concert he told NBC s Today Show I ve been a member of Amnesty and a support member for five years 132 In 1988 he joined musicians including Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen for a six week Human Rights Now tour commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 129 With his wife Trudie Styler and Raoni Metuktire a Kayapo Indian leader in Brazil Sting founded the Rainforest Foundation Fund to help save the rainforests and protect indigenous peoples there In 1989 he flew to the Altamira Gathering to offer support while promoting his charity 133 His support continues and includes an annual benefit concert at Carnegie Hall which has featured Billy Joel Elton John James Taylor and others A species of Colombian tree frog Dendropsophus stingi was named after him for his commitment and efforts to save the rainforest 134 In 1988 the single They Dance Alone Cueca Sola chronicled the plight of the mothers wives and daughters of the disappeared political opponents killed by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile 135 Sting signing a petition in Minsk in 2010 against the death penalty in Belarus the only European country that still practises it On 15 September 1997 Sting joined Paul McCartney Eric Clapton Elton John Phil Collins and Mark Knopfler at London s Royal Albert Hall for Music for Montserrat a benefit for the Caribbean island devastated by a volcano Sting and Styler were awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award in Sherborn Massachusetts on 30 June 2000 136 In September 2001 Sting took part in America A Tribute to Heroes singing Fragile to raise money for families of victims of the 9 11 attacks in the US 137 In February 2005 Sting performed the Leeuwin Estate Concert Series in Western Australia the concert raised 4 million for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami relief 138 139 140 In 2007 Sting joined Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland for the closing set at the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford New Jersey Joined by John Mayer and Kanye West Sting and the Police ended the show singing Message in a Bottle 141 In 2008 Sting contributed to Songs for Tibet to support Tibet and the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso 142 On 22 January 2010 Sting performed Driven to Tears during Hope for Haiti Now 143 On 25 April 2010 he performed on the National Mall in Washington D C in the 40th anniversary celebration of Earth Day 144 Sting is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation 145 In 2010 he became a Patron of the poverty alleviation and beekeeping charity Bees for Development 146 In 2011 Sting joined more than 30 others in an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron for immediate decriminalisation of drug possession if a policy review showed it had failed Sting was quoted Giving young people criminal records for minor drug possession serves little purpose it is time to think of more imaginative ways of addressing drug use in our society 147 On 4 July 2011 Sting cancelled a concert for the Astana Day Festival in Astana Kazakhstan Amnesty International convinced him to cancel due to concerns over the rights of Kazakh oil and gas workers and their families On 2 November 2012 Sting appeared on Hurricane Sandy Coming Together and sang a version of Message in a Bottle to raise funds for those affected by a storm on the east coast of the US that week The show reportedly raised 23 million 148 Sting also participated as a co host and musician during the day long 2015 Norwegian TV campaign dedicated to the preservation of the rainforest 149 In August 2014 Sting was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to reject Scottish independence from the UK in September s referendum on the issue 150 Sting publicly opposed Brexit and supported remaining in the European Union On 23 June 2016 in a non binding referendum the British public voted to leave In October 2018 Sting was among a group of British musicians who signed an open letter sent to then Prime Minister Theresa May drafted by Bob Geldof calling for a 2nd vote stating that Brexit will impact every aspect of the music industry From touring to sales to copyright legislation to royalty collation the letter added We dominate the market and our bands singers musicians writers producers and engineers work all over Europe and the world and in turn Europe and the world come to us Why Because we are brilliant at it Our music reaches out all inclusive and embraces anyone and everyone And that truly is what Britain is 151 In January 2018 it was reported that Sting had joined the board of advisors of an impact investing fund of JANA Partners LLC named JANA Impact Capital aimed at serving environmental and social causes 152 On 6 January 2018 JANA Partners together with the California State Teachers Retirement System issued a public letter imploring Apple Inc to take a more responsible approach towards smartphone addiction among children The letter cited several pieces of evidence that show that smartphone use by children increases the risk of their having mental health problems and worsens academic performance 153 Personal life Edit Sting with his 2014 Kennedy Center Honoree Medallion on 6 December 2014 Sting married actress Frances Tomelty on 1 May 1976 They had two children Joseph b 23 Nov 1976 and Fuschia Katherine Kate b 17 Apr 1982 Sumner In 1980 Sting became a tax exile 154 155 156 in Galway Ireland In 1982 after the birth of his second child he separated from Tomelty 157 Tomelty and Sting divorced in 1984 158 following Sting s affair with actress Trudie Styler 159 The split was controversial as The Independent reported in 2006 Tomelty just happened to be Trudie s best friend Sting and Frances lived next door to Trudie in Bayswater west London for several years before the two of them became lovers 160 Sting married Styler at Camden Registry Office on 20 August 1992 and the couple had their wedding blessed two days later in the twelfth century parish church of St Andrew in Great Durnford Wiltshire south west England 157 Sting and Styler have four children Brigitte Michael Mickey b 19 Jan 1984 Jake b 24 May 1985 Eliot Paulina Coco b 30 Jul 1990 and Giacomo Luke b 17 Dec 1995 Sumner Coco is founder and lead singer of the group I Blame Coco Giacomo Luke is the inspiration behind the name of Kentucky Derby winning horse Giacomo 161 In April 2009 the Sunday Times Rich List estimated Sting s wealth at 175 million and ranked him the 322nd wealthiest person in Britain 162 A decade later Sting was estimated to have a fortune of 320 million in the 2019 Sunday Times Rich List making him one of the ten wealthiest people in the British music industry 163 Both of Sting s parents died of cancer his mother in 1986 and his father in 1987 He did not attend either funeral in order not to draw media attention to them 164 In 1995 Sting gave evidence in court against his former accountant Keith Moore who had misappropriated 6 million of his money Moore was jailed for six years 165 Sting owns several homes worldwide including Lake House and its sixty acre estate near Salisbury Wiltshire a New York City flat which was once owned by Billy Joel and the Villa Il Palagio estate in Figline Valdarno Tuscany 166 He owned a house in Highgate 2 The Grove for a number of years which had previously been the former home of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin 167 Garry Kasparov and Sting in Times Square New York 2000 For much of his life Sting s spare time interests and activities have revolved around mental and physical fitness For many years he ran five miles 8 km a day and also performed aerobics He participated in running races at Parliament Hill and charity runs including the Race Against Time for Sport Aid in both 1986 and 1988 Around 1990 Danny Paradise introduced him to yoga and he began practising the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga series though he now practises Tantra and Jivamukti Yoga as well 168 He wrote a foreword to Yoga Beyond Belief 169 written by Ganga White in 2007 In 2008 he was reported to practise Maharishi Mahesh Yogi s Transcendental Meditation technique 170 He also practices pilates regularly 171 Sting s affinity with yoga contributed to a rumour about his sexual prowess including a purported eight hours of sex with Styler 172 173 The story stems from an interview with Sting and Bob Geldof A journalist asked how do you perform in bed and Geldof remarked that he was a three minute man but Sting could last for hours thanks to yoga 174 Also a keen chess player Sting played chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in an exhibition game in 2000 along with four bandmates Dominic Miller Jason Rebello Chris Botti and Russ Irwin Kasparov beat all five simultaneously within fifty minutes 175 In 1969 Sting read the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake and later bought the film rights He named pets a racehorse his publishing company and one of his daughters Fuschia in the books actually Fuchsia after characters from the books 176 Sting supports his hometown Premier League football club Newcastle United and in 2009 backed a supporters campaign against the plan of owner Mike Ashley to sell off naming rights of the club s home stadium St James Park 177 He wrote a song in support of Newcastle called Black and White Army Bringing The Pride Back Home 178 In a 2011 interview in Time Sting said that he was agnostic and that the certainties of religious faith were dangerous 24 In August 2013 Sting donated money to The Friends of Tynemouth Outdoor Pool to regenerate the 1920s lido at the southern end of Longsands Beach in Tynemouth northeast England a few miles from where he was born 179 Awards and nominations EditMain article List of awards and nominations received by StingDiscography EditMain article Sting discography See also The Police discography and List of songs recorded by the Police Studio albums Edit The Dream of the Blue Turtles 1985 Nothing Like the Sun 1987 The Soul Cages 1991 Ten Summoner s Tales 1993 Mercury Falling 1996 Brand New Day 1999 Sacred Love 2003 Songs from the Labyrinth 2006 If on a Winter s Night 2009 Symphonicities 2010 The Last Ship 2013 57th amp 9th 2016 44 876 2018 with Shaggy My Songs 2019 The Bridge 2021 117 118 Filmography EditSting has also ventured into acting Film television and radio roles include As actor Quadrophenia 1979 The Ace Face the King of the Mods a k a the Bell Boy in the film adaptation of the Who album Radio On 1979 Just Like Eddie The Great Rock n Roll Swindle 1980 Leader of the Blow Waves The footage was cut but it later reappeared in the DVD version and in the documentary The Filth and the Fury 2000 Artemis 81 1981 The angel Helith BBC TV film Brimstone and Treacle 1982 Martin Taylor a drifter Dune 1984 Feyd Rautha Harkonnen Titus Groan 1984 Steerpike BBC Radio 4 broadcast based on the Mervyn Peake novel Gormenghast 1984 Steerpike BBC Radio 4 broadcast based on the Mervyn Peake novel Plenty 1985 Mick a black marketeer The Bride 1985 Baron Frankenstein Walking to New Orleans 1985 Busker singing Moon Over Bourbon Street The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988 a heroic officer Stormy Monday 1988 Finney a nightclub owner Julia and Julia 1988 Daniel a British gentleman The Grotesque 1995 a k a Gentlemen Don t Eat Poets and Grave Indiscretion Fledge Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 J D Eddie s father and owner of a bar Kaamelott The First Chapter 2021 HorsaAs himself Urgh A Music War 1982 Bring On the Night 1985 Saturday Night Live 1991 host various The Simpsons episode Radio Bart 1992 The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer Episode 5 1995 The Larry Sanders Show episode Where Is the Love 1996 Ally McBeal season four episode Cloudy Skies Chance of Parade 2001 Everyone Stares The Police Inside Out 2006 Studio 60 on Sunset Strip 2006 Vicar of Dibley Comic Relief special 2007 Bee Movie 2007 Little Britain USA 2008 as Stomp the lead singer of the Cops playing Fields of Gold Bruno 2009 Still Bill 2009 Do It Again 2010 Life s Too Short 2011 2012 Time for Change 2011 The Michael J Fox Show 2013 singing August Wind from The Last Ship 20 Feet from Stardom 2013 Zoolander 2 2016 Have a Good Trip Adventures in Psychedelics 2020 Only Murders in the Building 2021 Sting narrated the American premiere of the musical Yanomamo 1983 by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon outlining problems that existed in the Amazon rainforest This was made into a film and later broadcast as Song of the Forest He also provided the voice of Zarm on the 1990s television show Captain Planet and the Planeteers In 1989 he starred as Macheath Mack the Knife in John Dexter s Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera Sting also appeared as himself in the video game Guitar Hero World Tour In 2018 Sting voiced the narrator of Where the Water Tastes Like Wine Theatre EditBroadway Edit Year Title Notes1982 Rock N Roll The First 5 000 Years Writer Message in a Bottle 1989 3 Penny Opera Role Macheath2014 The Last Ship Music and lyrics Role Jackie WhitePublications EditBroken Music New York Simon amp Schuster 2003 ISBN 0 7434 5081 7 Lyrics by Sting New York Simon amp Schuster 2007 ISBN 978 1 84737 167 6 See also EditList of number one hits United States List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 U S List of number one dance hits United States List of artists who reached number one on the U S Dance chart Mononymous personsNotes Edit About the 2016 Bataclan re opening show Sting stated In re opening the Bataclan we have two important tasks to reconcile First to remember and honour those who lost their lives in the attack a year ago and second to celebrate the life and the music that this historic theatre represents In doing so we hope to respect the memory as well as the life affirming spirit of those who fell We shall not forget them 103 References Edit Readers Poll Ten Best Post Band Solo Artists 7 Sting Rolling Stone 2 May 2012 Seely Mike 1 September 2004 The Ten Most Hated Men in Rock The Riverfront Times Collins Robert 21 February 2014 Review Sting and Paul Simon serenade Vancouver CTV Vancouver News Stephen Thomas Erlewine Sting Biography AllMusic Retrieved 7 November 2010 Sting s Every Breath You Take Is the Most Played Song on Radio Video GuardianIv Retrieved 10 June 2019 a b Chow Andrew R 7 February 2017 Sting and Wayne Shorter Win Polar Music Prize The New York Times Retrieved 8 February 2017 Sting releases new album My Songs today Universal Music Canada Retrieved 10 October 2020 100 Greatest Living Songwriters pastemusic com 8 June 2006 Retrieved 13 January 2013 VH1 Greatest Artists of Rock Rockonthenet com 1998 Retrieved 30 January 2014 The 100 Greatest Stars of the 20th Century Q August 1999 Retrieved 29 January 2014 Hutchinson Ken 15 May 2015 Wallsend History Tour 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Inside the Rolls Royce is the Queen Mother This is a big deal So the procession is moving at a stately pace down my street and as it approaches my house I start to wave my flag vigorously and there is the Queen Mother I see her and she seems to see me She acknowledges me She waves and she smiles And I wave my flag even more vigorously We re having a moment me and the Queen Mother She s acknowledged me And then she s gone 13 50 Well I wasn t cured of anything It was the opposite actually I was infected I was infected with an idea I don t belong in this street I don t want to live in that house I don t want to end up in that shipyard I want to be in that car Laughter I want a bigger life I want a life beyond this town I want a life that s out of the ordinary It s my right It s my right as much as hers Sting 2003 Broken Music Simon amp Schuster Clarkson 1999 p 17 Notable Alumni Northumbria University Archived from the original on 28 June 2017 Retrieved 22 January 2019 Berryman James 2000 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