Sting

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.

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Sting

Filmografia

Lock & Stock - Pazzi scatenati

Dune

George Michael: A Different Story

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

Quadrophenia

Bee Movie

The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts

Sting - Bring on the Night

British Rock

Stormy Monday - Lunedì di tempesta

Sex Pistols - oscenità e furore

The Police: Certifiable

America | A Tribute to Heroes

Plenty

Herbie Hancock: Possibilities

La sposa promessa

Le avventure del Barone di Munchausen

Attenborough at 90

Live 8

Lindisfarne's Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

Sting: concerto al Pantheon di Parigi - 50 anni della radio FIP

Artemis '81

Sting: Inside The Songs Of Sacred Love

Live Aid

Sting: The Brand New Day Tour: Live From The Universal Amphitheatre

The Police: Live In Concert Tokyo

Radio On

Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Final - Buenos Aires

Chris Botti & Friends - Night Sessions: Live in Concert

The Grotesque

Sting: Live In Berlin

Herb Alpert Is...

Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain

Le due facce del male

Sting ...All This Time

Sting Festival de Viña del Mar

Giulia e Giulia

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

CMT Crossroads: Sting and Vince Gill

Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out

WHAM!

Basta guardare il cielo

Sting: The Journey & The Labyrinth: The Music of John Dowland

Sting Acústico

The Police: Around The World

Hope for Haiti Now

The Beatles Revolution

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

20 Feet from Stardom

Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy

The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra

Resident Alien

Police in Montserrat

Twin Spirits: Sting performs Schumann

Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police

Radioman

Sting: 57th and 9th - The Interviews

Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story

The Police - Outlandos To Synchronicities

Il libro delle soluzioni

One World, One Voice

Human Rights Now 25th Anniversary

Zucchero | Sugar Fornaciari

Mylène Farmer : Sur les pas d'une icône

Sting - 25 Years

Iain Goes Inside the Last Ship

A MusiCares Tribute to Bruce Springsteen

Dolly Parton - From Rhinestones to Rock & Roll

The Queen's Birthday Party

Sting: When the Last Ship Sails (Live at the Public Theater)

GIMS: On the Record

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

Chris Botti Live: With Orchestra and Special Guests

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