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Sting

Sting

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Born October 2, 1951, Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, activist, and actor. He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music. Sting has sold a combined total of more than 100 million records as a solo artist and as a member of the Police. He has received three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2002; a Golden Globe; an Emmy; and four Academy Award nominations. As a solo musician and as a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003. Sting has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors; a CBE from Queen Elizabeth II for services to music; Kennedy Center Honors; and the Polar Music Prize. In May 2023, he was made an Ivor Novello Fellow. Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born at Sir G B Hunter Memorial Hospital in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, on 2 October 1951, the eldest of four children of Audrey (née Cowell), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, a milkman and former fitter at an engineering works. He grew up near Wallsend's shipyards, which made an impression on him. As a child, he was inspired by the Queen Mother waving at him from a Rolls-Royce to divert from the shipyard prospect towards a more glamorous life. He helped his father deliver milk and by ten was "obsessed" with an old Spanish guitar left by an emigrating friend of his father. Sting attended St Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne. He visited nightclubs such as Club A'Gogo to see Cream and Manfred Mann, who influenced his music. He learned to sing and play simultaneously by listening to records at 78 rpm. After leaving school in 1969, he enrolled at the University of Warwick in Coventry, but left after a term. After working as a bus conductor, building labourer, and tax officer, he attended the Northern Counties College of Education (now Northumbria University) from 1971 to 1974 and qualified as a teacher.[20] He taught at St Paul's First School in Cramlington for two years. Sting performed jazz in the evenings, at weekends, and during breaks from college and teaching, playing with the Phoenix Jazzmen, Newcastle Big Band and Last Exit. He gained his nickname after his habit of wearing a black and yellow jumper with hooped stripes with the Phoenix Jazzmen. Bandleader Gordon Solomon thought he looked like a bee (or according to Sting himself, "they thought I looked like a wasp"), which prompted the name "Sting". In the 1985 documentary Bring On the Night a journalist called him Gordon, to which he replied, "My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, who is this Gordon character?" In 2011, he told Time "I was never called Gordon. You could shout 'Gordon' in the street and I would just move out of your way". Despite this, he chose not to legally change his name to "Sting". ... Source: Article "Sting (musician)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (223)
  • 2026Eddie Cochran: Don't Forget Me — Self
  • 2026Nino – A Film About Nino Rota — Self – Narrator
  • 2026Untold UK: Vinnie Jones — Self - (archive footage)
  • Billy Joel: And So It Goes — Self
  • 2025FireAid Benefit Concert — Self
  • 2025GIMS à Paris la Défense Arena : le concert événement — Self : Guest (virtual)
  • 2025In Thanks We Trust — Self
  • Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World — Self
  • 2025When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain — Self
  • 2024Billy Joel: The 100th - Live at Madison Square Garden — Self
  • 2024Sting and the Police at the BBC — Self
  • 2024Sting: Radio 2 in the Park — Self
  • 2024The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas? — Self
  • 2023Dolly Parton - From Rhinestones to Rock & Roll — Self
  • 2023Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story — Self
  • 2023They All Came Out to Montreux — Self
  • 2023WHAM! — Self (archive footage)
  • 2023Zucchero | Sugar Fornaciari — Self
  • 20222022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self
  • 2022Christmas@Home 2022: Das Weihnachtskonzert mit Daniel Hope, Sting und weiteren Gästen — Self : Singer
  • 2022Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon — Self
  • Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self (archive footage)
  • Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self – Musician and songwriter
  • 2021Great North: A Run. A River. A Region. — Self
  • 2021Lindisfarne's Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story — Self
  • 2021Mylène Farmer : Les Clips L'Intégrale (1999-2020) — Self
  • 2021Sting at the Pantheon in Paris - 50 Years of FIP Radio — Self
  • 2021The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune — Self (voice) (archive footage)
  • 2021Under the Volcano — Self
  • 2020Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats — Self
  • 2020GIMS: On the Record — Self
  • 2020Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics — Self
  • 2020Herb Alpert Is... — Self
  • 2020Le Grand Concert Unis pour le Liban — Self
  • Mylène Farmer, l’Ultime Création — Self
  • 2020Space Songs: Through the Distance — Self
  • 2020The Big Night In — Self
  • 2019Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade — Self
  • 2019Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal — Self
  • 2019I Want My MTV — Self
  • 2019Mylène Farmer: 2019 - Le Film — Self
  • 2019Sting & Shaggy au Château d'Hérouville — Self
  • 2019The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration — Self
  • 2018Gurrumul — Self
  • Reel Stories — Self - Guest Star
  • 2018Ruben Blades Is Not My Name — Self
  • 2018The Queen's Birthday Party — Self - Performer
  • 2018Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen — Self - Performer
  • Brian Johnson's A Life on the Road — Self
  • 2017Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star — Self
  • 2017Sting - Grenzgänger und Freigeist — Self
  • 2017Sting: A Free Man — Self
  • 2017Sting: Beyond The Police — Self - Musician
  • 2016Attenborough at 90 — Self
  • 2016Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People — Self (archive footage)
  • Michael McIntyre's Big Show — Self - Performer
  • 2016Rock'n'roll... Of Corse! — Self
  • 2016Sonic Sea — Self
  • 2016Sting - Live at iHeartRadio Music Festival 2016 — Self
  • 2016Sting Live At Irving Plaza — Self
  • 2016Sting au Bataclan — Self
  • 2016Sting: 57th and 9th - The Interviews — Self
  • 2015Biggest Band Break Ups and Make Ups — Self
  • Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
  • 2015Jaco — Self
  • 2015Mylène Farmer : Sur les pas d'une icône — Self
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest/Musical Guest
  • 2014Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute — Self
  • 2014Iain Goes Inside the Last Ship — Self
  • 2014John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self, Self - Guest
  • 201320 Feet from Stardom — Self
  • 2012Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police — Self
  • Finding Your Roots — Self
  • 2012Radioman — Self
  • 2011CMT Crossroads: Sting and Vince Gill — Self
  • 2011Sting Festival de Viña del Mar — Self
  • 20102012: Time for Change — Self
  • 2010Hope for Haiti Now — Self
  • 2010Still Bill — Self
  • 2010The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice! — Self
  • 2009Bruce Springsteen - 32nd Annual of Kennedy Center Honors — Self
  • 2009Brüno — Self - 'Dove of Peace'
  • 2009Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB — Self
  • 2009Chris Botti in Boston — Self
  • 2009If on a Winter's Night ... Live from Durham Cathedral — Self
  • 2009PoliWood — Self
  • 2009Sting: A Winter's Night...Live From Durham Cathedral — Self
  • 2009The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts — Self
  • 2009The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra — Self
  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
  • Little Britain USA — Self
  • Markus Lanz — Self
  • NPR Tiny Desk Concerts — Self
  • 2008Pavarotti The Duets — Self
  • 2008The Police Rock in Rio - Live Madrid — Self
  • 2008The Police: Better Than Therapy — Self
  • 2008The Police: Live In Concert Tokyo — Self
  • 2008VH1 Rock Honors: The Who — Self
  • X Factor — Self - Guest
  • 2007Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who — Self
  • 2007Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out — Self - The Police Member (archive footage)
  • Inas Nacht — Self
  • 2007STING: The Journey & The Labyrinth — Self
  • 2007Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation — Self
  • 2007Scott Walker: 30 Century Man — Self
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self
  • 2007The Police - Live in Rio — Self
  • 2006Chris Botti Live: With Orchestra and Special Guests — Self
  • 2006Herbie Hancock: Possibilities — Self
  • Legends — Self
  • Salut les Terriens ! — Self - Guest
  • Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip — Self
  • The One Show — Self
  • 2005An Intimate Evening with Mary J. Blige - Live from the House of Blues — Self
  • 2005Live 8 — Self
  • 2005Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today — Self
  • VH1 Storytellers — Self
  • 2004George Michael: A Different Story — Self
  • Kulturplatz — Self
  • 2004Live Aid — Self
  • Miley's New Year's Eve Party — Self - Musical Guest
  • On Air with Ryan Seacrest — Self
  • Parkinson — Self - Guest / Performer (archive footage)
  • 2004Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? — Self
  • 2004Sting: The Journey & The Labyrinth: The Music of John Dowland — Self
  • 2004The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition — Self
  • 2003Freedom Beat — Self
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self, Self - Musical Guest
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self, Self - Musical Guest
  • CMT Crossroads — Self
  • 2002Chris Botti & Friends - Night Sessions: Live in Concert — Self
  • 2002The Sweatbox — Self
  • 2001All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live! — Self
  • 2001America | A Tribute to Heroes — Self - Performer
  • 2001Being Mick — Self
  • Star Academy — Self
  • 2001Sting ...All This Time — Self - Lead Singer
  • 2001The Police: Ghost in the Machine Tour - Live at Gateshead — Self
  • 2000The Beatles Revolution — Self
  • 2000The Filth and the Fury — Self (archive footage)
  • 1999Eric Clapton: Standing at the Crossroads — Self
  • Rove — Self
  • TV total — Self
  • The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn — Self - Guest
  • 1999Tina Turner : Celebrate! — Self
  • Parkinson — Self
  • 1998Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward — Self
  • Vivement dimanche — Self
  • 1997An Audience with Elton John — Self
  • Behind the Music — Self
  • Leute heute — Self
  • 1997Music for Montserrat — Self
  • 1997The Very Best of Sting & The Police — Self (archive footage)
  • TFI Friday — Self
  • Lo + plus — Self - Guest
  • MADtv — Self
  • 1995The Police - Outlandos To Synchronicities — Self
  • 1995The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special — Self
  • 1994Sting - Englishman In Japan — Self
  • 1994Sting ‎– Fields Of Gold - The Best Of Sting — Self (archive footage)
  • TOTP2 — Self
  • GMTV — Self
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
  • Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Musical Guest
  • 1993Take That Away! — Self
  • 1992Pavarotti & Friends — Self
  • 1992Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special — Self
  • 1991Branford Marsalis: Steep — Self
  • 1991The Soul Cages Concert — Self
  • 1991Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin — Self - Guest
  • 1990One World, One Voice — Self
  • MTV Rockumentary — Self
  • MTV Unplugged — Self
  • Under the Sun — Self
  • 1988Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Final - Buenos Aires — Self
  • 1988Human Rights Now 25th Anniversary — Self - Musician
  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self, Self - Guest
  • 1988Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute — Self
  • 1988Peter Gabriel, Sting, & Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Now! — Self - Musician
  • 1988Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 3 — Self
  • 1988The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert — Self
  • Le monde est à vous — Self
  • Sacrée soirée — Self
  • 1987The Best of Max Headroom — Self
  • 1986Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 1 — Self
  • 1986U2 & The Police: A Conspiracy of Hope — Self
  • 1985Dire Straits at Live Aid — Self
  • 1985Live Aid — Self
  • 1985Sting - Bring on the Night — Self
  • The Max Headroom Show — Self
  • Victoires de la musique — Self
  • 1984'Do They Know It's Christmas?' - The Story Of The Official Band Aid Video — Self
  • Al TV — Self (archive footage)
  • MTV Video Music Awards — Self
  • 1983Destination Dune — Self
  • 1983Police in Montserrat — Self
  • Champs-Elysées — Self, Self - The Police
  • Late Night with David Letterman — Self - Guest
  • 1982The Police: Around The World — Self
  • 1982The Secret Policeman's Other Ball — Self
  • De TV Show — Self
  • 1981Urgh! A Music War — Self
  • 1980Punk and Its Aftershocks — Self
  • 1979The Police - Live '79 at Hatfield Polytechnic — Self
  • An Audience with... — Self
  • Bio’s Bahnhof — Self
  • 1977Acceleration Punk — Self
  • The BRIT Awards — Self
  • The Secret Policeman's Ball — Self
  • Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self - Host & Musical Guest, Self - Musical Guest
  • American Music Awards — Self - Musical Guest
  • Film '72 — Self
  • The Old Grey Whistle Test — Self
  • Titel, Thesen, Temperamente — Self
  • Viña del Mar International Song Festival — Self - The Police, Self - Musical Guest
  • The Grammys — Self
  • The Oscars — Self
  • Today — Self
  • Bambi — Self
  • Pinkpop - The Vintage Years (1975-1979) — Himself
  • Sting - Live at iHeartRadio — Self
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