Sting
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
276
Gender
Male
Birthday
1951-10-02 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
Sting
Biography
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, activist, and actor. He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music. Sting has sold a combined total of more than 100 million records as a solo artist and as a member of the Police. He has received three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2002; a Golden Globe; an Emmy; and four Academy Award nominations. As a solo musician and as a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003. Sting has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors; a CBE from Queen Elizabeth II for services to music; Kennedy Center Honors; and the Polar Music Prize. In May 2023, he was made an Ivor Novello Fellow. Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born at Sir G B Hunter Memorial Hospital in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, on 2 October 1951, the eldest of four children of Audrey (née Cowell), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, a milkman and former fitter at an engineering works. He grew up near Wallsend's shipyards, which made an impression on him. As a child, he was inspired by the Queen Mother waving at him from a Rolls-Royce to divert from the shipyard prospect towards a more glamorous life. He helped his father deliver milk and by ten was "obsessed" with an old Spanish guitar left by an emigrating friend of his father. Sting attended St Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne. He visited nightclubs such as Club A'Gogo to see Cream and Manfred Mann, who influenced his music. He learned to sing and play simultaneously by listening to records at 78 rpm. After leaving school in 1969, he enrolled at the University of Warwick in Coventry, but left after a term. After working as a bus conductor, building labourer, and tax officer, he attended the Northern Counties College of Education (now Northumbria University) from 1971 to 1974 and qualified as a teacher.[20] He taught at St Paul's First School in Cramlington for two years. Sting performed jazz in the evenings, at weekends, and during breaks from college and teaching, playing with the Phoenix Jazzmen, Newcastle Big Band and Last Exit. He gained his nickname after his habit of wearing a black and yellow jumper with hooped stripes with the Phoenix Jazzmen. Bandleader Gordon Solomon thought he looked like a bee (or according to Sting himself, "they thought I looked like a wasp"), which prompted the name "Sting". In the 1985 documentary Bring On the Night a journalist called him Gordon, to which he replied, "My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, who is this Gordon character?" In 2011, he told Time "I was never called Gordon. You could shout 'Gordon' in the street and I would just move out of your way". Despite this, he chose not to legally change his name to "Sting". ... Source: Article "Sting (musician)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
The Simpsons
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
The Graham Norton Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The One Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Only Murders in the Building
Markus Lanz
Bambi
MTV Video Music Awards
Leute heute
Champs-Elysées
Champs-Elysées
Parkinson
CBS News Sunday Morning
Sacrée Soirée
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Oscars
Vivement dimanche
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
Ally McBeal
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
The Larry Sanders Show
GMTV
Finding Your Roots
American Music Awards
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Late Night with David Letterman
Radio On
Bee Movie
X Factor
Brüno
Kulturplatz
An Audience with...
Star Academy
The Bride
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Victoires de la musique
Legends
CMT Crossroads
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
Le monde est à vous
Dune
TOTP2
Inas Nacht
Live 8
Behind the Music
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
The Michael J. Fox Show
The Grotesque
MTV Unplugged
Radioman
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
Rove
Julia and Julia
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Today
Stormy Monday
Zoolander 2
Attenborough at 90
Lo + plus
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
WHAM!
Jaco
Salut les Terriens !
Plenty
The Big Night In
Pavarotti & Friends
I Want My MTV
Branford Marsalis: Steep
The Old Grey Whistle Test
Brian Johnson's A Life on the Road
Rockpalast
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
TFI Friday
Lubach
Sting - Bring on the Night
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Mighty
Little Britain USA
Sting: All this Time
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
Under the Sun
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Sting Unplugged
Being Mick
The Max Headroom Show
Acceleration Punk
Life's Too Short
The Secret Policeman's Ball
The Kenny Everett Video Show
Reel Stories
Al TV
Quadrophenia
De TV Show
MADtv
Iain Goes Inside the Last Ship
Bio’s Bahnhof
Live Aid
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Kaamelott: The First Chapter
20 Feet from Stardom
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
The Grammys
Herb Alpert Is...
Mylène Farmer : Les Clips L'Intégrale (1999-2020)
The Book of Solutions
Sting au Bataclan
America | A Tribute to Heroes
Take That Away!
MTV Rockumentary
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
Mylène Farmer, l’Ultime Création
TV total
PoliWood
Catherine et Liliane
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Bruce Springsteen - 32nd Annual of Kennedy Center Honors
Live Aid
The Filth and the Fury
Brimstone & Treacle
FireAid Benefit Concert
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
Space Songs: Through the Distance
Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People
Sting: When the Last Ship Sails (Live at the Public Theater)
Music for Montserrat
The Sweatbox
The Best of Max Headroom
The Beatles Revolution
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition
Under the Volcano
The Police: Live in Essen - Rockpalast 1980
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The Soul Cages Concert
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
Chris Botti Live: With Orchestra and Special Guests
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Dolly Parton - From Rhinestones to Rock & Roll
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
George Michael: A Different Story
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
Hope for Haiti Now
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Ruben Blades Is Not My Name
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Talking Pictures: Quadrophenia
Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story
Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special
Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
An Audience with Elton John
Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Zucchero | Sugar Fornaciari
Tina Turner : Celebrate!
Pavarotti The Duets
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Destination Dune
Resident Alien
Sonic Sea
Mylène Farmer: 2019 - Le Film
Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 3
2012: Time for Change
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats
GIMS: On the Record
The Queen's Birthday Party
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today
John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
Still Bill
Rock'n'roll... Of Corse!
The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration
Billy Joel: The 100th - Live at Madison Square Garden
Sting Festival de Viña del Mar
Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out
When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain
GIMS à Paris la Défense Arena : le concert événement
Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
Chris Botti in Boston
An Intimate Evening with Mary J. Blige - Live from the House of Blues
Artemis '81
They All Came Out to Montreux
Royal Opera House: Message in a Bottle
Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who
The Police: Certifiable
'Do They Know It's Christmas?' - The Story Of The Official Band Aid Video
Sting: Unplugged
Peter Gabriel, Sting, & Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Now!
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Urgh! A Music War
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police
The Police - Greatest Video Hits
Biggest Band Break Ups and Make Ups
The Police - Live in Rio
The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra
Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy
Eric Clapton: Standing at the Crossroads
Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward
All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
Sting: Inside - The Songs of Sacred Love
Chris Botti & Friends - Night Sessions: Live in Concert
Freedom Beat
The Dark Side of The Sun
Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Final - Buenos Aires
Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icône
Punk and Its Aftershocks
Sting: The Brand New Day Tour: Live From The Universal Amphitheatre
Great North: A Run. A River. A Region.
Sting: A Free Man
Gurrumul
Sting: Live In Berlin
U2 & The Police: A Conspiracy of Hope
Sting, Daniel Hope & Freunde in Berlin Mit Golda Schultz, Bruce Liu u.v.m.
The Police: Live In Concert Tokyo
Christmas@Home 2022: Das Weihnachtskonzert mit Daniel Hope, Sting und weiteren Gästen
One World, One Voice
The Police: Synchronicity Concert
Sting: The Journey & The Labyrinth: The Music of John Dowland
Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade
Dire Straits at Live Aid
Sting Live At Irving Plaza
The Police – Live Ghost In The Machine
Sting: Live at the Olympia Paris
Le Grand Concert Unis pour le Liban
The Police: Around The World
Sting and the Police at the BBC
Sting: A Winter's Night...Live From Durham Cathedral
The Police: Ghost in the Machine Tour - Live at Gateshead
Sting - 25 Years
Human Rights Now 25th Anniversary
Sting au Panthéon (50 ans de FIP)
Sting and Gil Evans: Strange Fruit
Sting's 40th Birthday Celebration: Live from the Hollywood Bowl
Police in Montserrat
CMT Crossroads: Sting and Vince Gill
The Police: Better Than Therapy
Sting: Beyond The Police
Sting - Live at iHeartRadio
In Thanks We Trust
The Police - Live '79 at Hatfield Polytechnic
The Police: Live At Rockpalast
Sting - Fields Of Japan 1994
Sting : My Songs au château de Chambord
The Police - Outlandos To Synchronicities
Sting: Radio 2 in the Park
The Police - Live In Oakland
Sting - Grenzgänger und Freigeist
The Police Rock in Rio - Live Madrid
Sting: 57th and 9th - The Interviews
Sting – Fields Of Gold - The Best Of Sting
STING: The Journey & The Labyrinth
Twin Spirits: Sting performs Schumann
Sting & Shaggy au Château d'Hérouville
The Very Best of Sting & The Police
Sting - Live at iHeartRadio Music Festival 2016
Sting at the Pantheon in Paris 50 Years of FIP Radio
If on a Winter's Night ... Live from Durham Cathedral
