Sting (musician)

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October

1951), known as Sting, is an English musician, singer,
Sting
songwriter and actor. He was the frontman, songwriter and CBE
bassist for new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984.
He launched a solo career in 1985, and has included elements
of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his
music.[4]

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
Sting performing at The Queen's
Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording. In 2003, Sting
Birthday Party in 2018
received a CBE from Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for
services to music. He was made a Kennedy Center Honoree at Born Gordon Matthew
the White House in 2014, and was awarded the Polar Music Thomas Sumner
Prize in 2017.[6] 2 October 1951
Wallsend,
With the Police, Sting became one of the world's best-selling
Northumberland,
music artists. Solo and with the Police combined, he has sold
England
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 Alma mater Northern Counties
greatest artists of rock,[9] and 80th of Q magazine's 100 greatest College of
musical stars of the 20th century.[10] He has collaborated with Education
other musicians on songs such as "Money for Nothing" with Occupation Musician · singer ·
Dire Straits, "Rise & Fall" with Craig David, "All for Love"
songwriter · actor
with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, "You Will Be My Ain
True Love" with Alison Krauss, and introduced the North Years active 1971–present
African music genre raï to Western audiences through the hit Spouse(s) Frances Tomelty
song "Desert Rose" with Cheb Mami. In 2018, he released the (m. 1976; div. 1984)
album 44/876, a collaboration with Jamaican musician Shaggy,
which won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in Trudie Styler
2019. (m. 1992)

Children 6; including Joe,

Mickey and Eliot
Contents Awards Full list
Early life Musical career
Musical career Genres Rock · pop · new
1977–1986: The Police and early solo work wave · post-punk ·
1985–1989: Solo debut ska · reggae · jazz ·
1990–1997: Greater solo success world · soft
1998–2005: Brand New Day and soundtrack work rock[1][2][3]
2006–2010: Experimental albums and the Police Instruments Vocals · bass guitar
reunion · guitar · double
2010–2016: The Last Ship and joint tours with bass
Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel
Labels A&M · Deutsche
2016–2020: 57th & 9th, 44/876 and My Songs
Grammophon ·
2021–present: Duets and The Bridge
UMG · Cherrytree ·
Activism Interscope · Polydor
Personal life Associated acts The Police · Peter
Awards and nominations Gabriel · Paul
Simon · Shaggy ·
Discography
Studio albums Dire Straits · Edin
Karamazov
Filmography
Website sting.com (http://sti
Theatre ng.com)
Broadway
Signature
Publications
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links

Early life
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.[14] 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.[15][16] He helped his father deliver milk and by ten was "obsessed" with an old Spanish guitar left by
an emigrating friend of his father's.[17]

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.[18] 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.[19] He taught at St Paul's First
School in Cramlington for two years.[20]
Sting performed jazz in the evening, weekends and during breaks
from college and teaching, playing with the Phoenix Jazzmen,
Newcastle Big Band, and Last Exit.[21] 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".[22][23] In the 1985 documentary Bring on the Night a
journalist called him Gordon, to which he replied, "My children Wallsend shipyard, circa 1964, near
call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, who is this Gordon where Sting grew up. His childhood
character?"[24] In 2011, he told Time that "I was never called experiences and the local
Gordon. You could shout 'Gordon' in the street and I would just shipbuilding industry was the
move out of your way".[25] inspiration for his 2014 musical The
Last Ship, which is also set in
Wallsend.
Musical career

1977–1986: The Police and early solo work

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).[26][27] 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.

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 "Even though logic would
1983 at Shea Stadium in New York City because he felt that playing that say, 'Are you out of your
venue was "[Mount] Everest".[29] While never formally breaking up, mind? You're in the biggest
after Synchronicity, the group agreed to concentrate on solo projects. As band in the world – just
the years went by, the band members, especially Sting, dismissed the bite the bullet and make
possibility of reforming. In 2007, however, the band did reform and some money.' But there
undertook The Police Reunion Tour.[30] continued to be some
instinct, against logic,
Four of the band's five studio albums appeared on Rolling Stone's list of against good advice, [that]
the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and two of the band's songs, told me I should quit."
"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 —Sting on quitting the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In band in 1986.[28]
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

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
Sting performing in Norway in 1985 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 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 Sting and Bono at the Conspiracy of
90 and his Police album Synchronicity was ranked number 17 on Hope concert in New Jersey, 1986
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.

Sting's fourth album Ten Summoner's Tales peaked at two in the UK and
"In England, our house is US album charts in 1993, and went triple platinum in just over a
surrounded by barley year.[36][49] The album was recorded at his Elizabethan country home,
fields, and in the summer Lake House in Wiltshire. Ten Summoner's Tales was nominated for the
it's fascinating to watch the Mercury Prize in 1993 and for the Grammy for Album of the Year in
wind moving over the 1994. The title is a wordplay on his surname, Sumner, and "The
shimmering surface, like Summoner's Tale", one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
waves on an ocean of gold. Hit singles on the album include "Fields of Gold", a song inspired by the
There's something barley fields next to his Wiltshire home, with the music video featuring a
inherently sexy about the silhouette of Sting walking through a village containing common
sight, something primal, as features seen throughout the UK during that time such as a red telephone
if the wind were making box, and "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You", the latter earning his second
love to the barley. Lovers award for best male pop singer at the 36th Grammy Awards.[50]
have made promises here,
I'm sure, their bonds In May 1993, he covered his own Police song from the Ghost in the
strengthened by the Machine album, "Demolition Man", for the Demolition Man film. With
comforting cycle of the Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, Sting performed "All for Love" for the
seasons." 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
—Sting on the "Fields of was nominated for three more.[50] Berklee College of Music awarded
Gold" lyrics.[48]
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

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. Sting on stage in Budapest in
The final single used to promote the film, "My Funny Friend and January 2000
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

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
Sting with the Police at Madison composer and his cooperation with Edin Karamazov brought
Square Garden, New York, 1 August recognition in classical music.[63] As promotion of this album, he
2007 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 The Police 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

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 Sting performing in
version of the song "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" as a duet with Glee Budapest, 30 June 2011
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]

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,
Sting and Paul Simon on stage at Portugal, Italy and Sweden.[91]
the O2 Arena in London, April 2015
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][100][101] 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, British Columbia at the Commodore Ballroom, and continued into
October.[102]

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.[103] 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][104]

Sting was announced as the joint winner of the 2017 Polar Music
Prize, a Swedish international award given in recognition of
Sting (left) performing with Shaggy at
excellence in the world of music. The award committee stated: "As
the 2018 Capitals playoff concert
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.[105]

On 7 February 2018, Sting performed as special guest at the Italian

"For the first time in 22 years, Sanremo Music Festival, singing "Muoio per te", the Italian version
BMI has a new top song in of "Mad About You", the lyrics of which were written by his friend
our repertoire with Sting’s and colleague Zucchero Fornaciari, and "Don't Make Me Wait" with
timeless hit ‘Every Breath You Shaggy. 44/876, Sting and Shaggy's first studio album as a duo,[107]
Take,’ a remarkable was released in April 2018.
achievement that solidifies its
place in songwriting history." 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
—BMI President Mike with the Police.[108][109] In support of the album, a world tour named
O’Neill in May 2019 on the My Songs Tour started on 28 May 2019 at La Seine Musicale in
"Every Breath You Take" Paris, and ends on 2 September 2019 at Kit Carson Park in Taos,
becoming the most played New Mexico.[110] The tour will then resume in 2020 with a 16-date
song in US radio history.[106] residency from 22 May to 2 September at Caesars Palace in Las
Vegas, Nevada.[111] Sting was among hundreds of artists whose
material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.[112]

On 14 April 2020, Sting recorded a duet cover of "Message in a Bottle" with the girl group All Saints.[113]
The same year, he appeared on the song "Simple" available on the EP Pausa by Ricky Martin.[114]
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.[115]
However, several titles 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, are not included in the album.

On 25 August 2021, it was announced that Sting is due to release on 19 November 2021 a new album
entitled The Bridge and on 1 September 2021 a new song entitled "If It's Love" as the first single from the
album. Sting wrote this brand new set of pop-rock songs "in a year of global pandemic, personal loss,
separation, disruption, lockdown and extraordinary social and political turmoil."[116][117]

Activism
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.[118]
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."[119] 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 the Theatre Royal in Sting with Chief Raoni in Paris, April
London. He also led other musicians (The Secret Police) including 1989
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.[120]

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.[121] 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.[122]

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."[123] 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.[120]

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.[124] 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".[125] 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.[126]

Sting (second from right) at a Human On 15 September 1997, Sting

Rights Now! concert in Mendoza, joined Paul McCartney, Eric
Argentina, October 1988 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.[127] 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.[128] 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.[129][130][131]

In 2007, Sting joined Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland for the Sting signing a petition in
closing set at the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, Minsk in 2010 against the
New Jersey. Joined by John Mayer and Kanye West, Sting and the Police death penalty in Belarus, the
ended the show singing "Message in a Bottle" [132] In 2008 Sting only European country that
contributed to Songs for Tibet to support Tibet and the Dalai Lama, Tenzin still practises it.
Gyatso. [133] On 22 January 2010, Sting performed "Driven to Tears"
during Hope for Haiti Now.[134] On 25 April 2010, he performed on the
National Mall in Washington, D.C. in the 40th anniversary celebration of Earth Day.[135] Sting is a patron
of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.[136] In 2010, he became a Patron of the poverty alleviation and
beekeeping charity Bees for Development.[137]

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."[138]

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.[139] Sting also participated as a co-host and musician during
the day-long 2015 Norwegian TV campaign, dedicated to the preservation of the rainforest.[140]

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.[141]
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."[142]

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.[143]
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.[144]

Personal life
Sting married actress Frances Tomelty on 1 May 1976. Before they
divorced in 1984, they had two children: Joseph (born 23 November
1976) and Fuchsia Katherine ("Kate", born 17 April 1982). In 1980, Sting
became a tax exile[145][146][147] in Galway in Ireland. In 1982, after the
birth of his second child, he separated from Tomelty.[148] Tomelty and
Sting divorced in 1984[149] following Sting's affair with actress Trudie
Styler.[150] 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)".[151]

Sting married Styler at Camden Registry Office on 20 August 1992, and

Sting with his 2014 Kennedy the couple had their wedding blessed two days later in the twelfth-century
Center Honoree Medallion, parish church of St Andrew in Great Durnford, Wiltshire, south-west
on 6 December 2014 England.[148] Sting and Styler have four children: Brigitte Michael
("Mickey", born 19 January 1984), Jake (24 May 1985), Eliot Paulina
(nicknamed "Coco", 30 July 1990), and Giacomo Luke (17 December
1995). Coco is a singer and was the founder and lead singer of the group I Blame Coco. Giacomo Luke is
the inspiration behind the name of Kentucky Derby–winning horse Giacomo.[152]

In April 2009, the Sunday Times Rich List estimated Sting's wealth at £175 million (US$265 million) and
ranked him the 322nd wealthiest person in Britain.[153] 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 10 wealthiest people in
the British music industry.[154]

Both of Sting's parents died of cancer: his mother in 1986 and his father in 1987. He did not attend either
parent's funeral, in order not to bring media attention to them.[155]

In 1995, Sting gave evidence in court against his former accountant (Keith Moore), who had
misappropriated £6 million (US$7.6m) of his money. Moore was jailed for six years.[156] 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.[157] For many years he owned a house in Highgate, 2 The Grove which had been the former
home of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin.[158]
Sting ran five miles (8 km) a day and performed aerobics. He
participated in running races at Parliament Hill and charity runs.
Around 1990, Danny Paradise introduced him to yoga, and he
began practising Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga series, though he now
practises Tantra and Jivamukti Yoga as well.[159] He wrote a
foreword to Yoga Beyond Belief,[160] written by Ganga White in
2007. In 2008, he was reported to practise Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi's Transcendental Meditation technique.[161]

Sting's affinity with yoga contributed to a rumour about his sexual

prowess, including a purported eight hours of sex with
Styler.[162][163] 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
Garry Kasparov and Sting in Times
last for hours thanks to yoga.[164]
Square, New York, 2000
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.[165]

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 (Fuchsia) after characters from the
books.[166]

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.[167] He wrote a song in support of Newcastle, called "Black and White Army
(Bringing The Pride Back Home)".[168]

In a 2011 interview in Time, Sting said that he was agnostic and that the certainties of religious faith were
dangerous.[25]

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.[169]

Awards and nominations

Discography

Studio albums
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 & 9th (2016)
44/876 (2018) (with Shaggy)
My Songs (2019)
The Bridge (2021)[116][117]

Filmography
Sting has also ventured into acting. Film, television and radio roles include:[170]

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
Saturday Night Live (1991) – host, various
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) – Horsa

As himself

Urgh! A Music War (1982)

Bring on the Night (1985)
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")
Brüno (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.[171][172]

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
Music and lyrics
2014 The Last Ship
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
Album era
List 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 persons

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."[104]

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Sting's Commencement Address (http://www.berklee.edu/commencement/past/sting.html)
(1994) to the Berklee College of Music
Sting (http://www.publicradio.org/tools/media/player/performance_today/features/2007/03/06
_sting) radio interview about John Dowland songs, from NPR Performance Today, 6 March
2007
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