Sting
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
266
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
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Graham Norton Show
Only Murders in the Building
Leute heute
Markus Lanz
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The One Show
Kulturplatz
CBS News Sunday Morning
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
Champs-Elysées
Champs-Elysées
Late Night with David Letterman
Vivement dimanche
Sacrée Soirée
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Bambi
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
MTV Video Music Awards
Le monde est à vous
GMTV
TOTP2
Rockpalast
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Parkinson
CMT Crossroads
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
An Audience with...
Finding Your Roots
Behind the Music
The Larry Sanders Show
Inas Nacht
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
The Oscars
Ally McBeal
American Music Awards
Salut les Terriens !
Star Academy
MTV Unplugged
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Today
Legends
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
The Old Grey Whistle Test
Bee Movie
Lo + plus
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
Dune
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Rove
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Michael J. Fox Show
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Victoires de la musique
TFI Friday
Sting & Shaggy au Château d'Hérouville
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Radio On
George Michael: A Different Story
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
America | A Tribute to Heroes
The Book of Solutions
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Under the Sun
GIMS: On the Record
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
Still Bill
Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy
Al TV
Twin Spirits: Sting performs Schumann
Under the Volcano
Little Britain USA
Zucchero | Sugar Fornaciari
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
The Filth and the Fury
The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra
The Mighty
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration
Zoolander 2
Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today
De TV Show
Life's Too Short
Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
An Audience with Elton John
Julia and Julia
WHAM!
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Bio’s Bahnhof
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
Plenty
Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Brimstone & Treacle
Sting: Live In Berlin
The Police: Around The World
Lubach
Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
The Kenny Everett Video Show
Brüno
Radioman
Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Chris Botti in Boston
The Bride
Sting : My Songs au château de Chambord
Sting: Live at the Olympia Paris
The Dark Side of The Sun
PoliWood
Jaco
TV total
Attenborough at 90
Artemis '81
Police in Montserrat
Stormy Monday
Take That Away!
The Max Headroom Show
Branford Marsalis: Steep
Live 8
Quadrophenia
MTV Rockumentary
Royal Opera House: Message in a Bottle
Chris Botti & Friends - Night Sessions: Live in Concert
Sting - Bring on the Night
Live Aid
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Sting: All this Time
2012: Time for Change
MADtv
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Biggest Band Break Ups and Make Ups
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
Reel Stories
Destination Dune
John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
Herb Alpert Is...
The Grotesque
The Beatles Revolution
Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icône
Sting Live At Irving Plaza
Brian Johnson's A Life on the Road
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
Urgh! A Music War
Billy Joel: The 100th - Live at Madison Square Garden
Tina Turner : Celebrate!
Mylène Farmer, l’Ultime Création
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
Freedom Beat
Iain Goes Inside the Last Ship
Catherine et Liliane
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition
The Queen's Birthday Party
Sting: When the Last Ship Sails (Live at the Public Theater)
Sonic Sea
Chris Botti Live: With Orchestra and Special Guests
20 Feet from Stardom
The Grammys
Sting: The Brand New Day Tour: Live From The Universal Amphitheatre
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
Live Aid
Sting Unplugged
They All Came Out to Montreux
All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police
I Want My MTV
The Best of Max Headroom
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
Sting and Gil Evans: Strange Fruit
Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
The Soul Cages Concert
The Police: Synchronicity Concert
Mylène Farmer: 2019 - Le Film
Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
One World, One Voice
FireAid Benefit Concert
Pavarotti & Friends
Dolly Parton - From Rhinestones to Rock & Roll
Pavarotti The Duets
'Do They Know It's Christmas?' - The Story Of The Official Band Aid Video
Sting au Bataclan
Space Songs: Through the Distance
Resident Alien
Sting: Inside - The Songs of Sacred Love
The Sweatbox
Music for Montserrat
An Intimate Evening with Mary J. Blige - Live from the House of Blues
Sting: The Journey & The Labyrinth: The Music of John Dowland
Hope for Haiti Now
Being Mick
Talking Pictures: Quadrophenia
Punk and Its Aftershocks
The Police: Live In Concert Tokyo
Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special
The Police: Certifiable
The Police - Live In Oakland
The Police - Live '79 at Hatfield Polytechnic
Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats
Acceleration Punk
Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story
Mylène Farmer : Les Clips L'Intégrale (1999-2020)
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Sting: A Free Man
Sting: Beyond The Police
Ruben Blades Is Not My Name
When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain
Dire Straits at Live Aid
Great North: A Run. A River. A Region.
Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Final - Buenos Aires
Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward
Le Grand Concert Unis pour le Liban
U2 & The Police: A Conspiracy of Hope
Sting: A Winter's Night...Live From Durham Cathedral
Sting au Panthéon (50 ans de FIP)
Gurrumul
Rock'n'roll... Of Corse!
Sting and the Police at the BBC
The Police - Live in Rio
Sting Festival de Viña del Mar
The Police: Better Than Therapy
Human Rights Now 25th Anniversary
Peter Gabriel, Sting, & Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Now!
Sting's 40th Birthday Celebration: Live from the Hollywood Bowl
Bruce Springsteen - 32nd Annual of Kennedy Center Honors
Sting: 57th and 9th - The Interviews
CMT Crossroads: Sting and Vince Gill
Sting - Grenzgänger und Freigeist
The Police - Outlandos To Synchronicities
The Police: Ghost in the Machine Tour - Live at Gateshead
The Police: Live in Essen - Rockpalast 1980
The Very Best of Sting & The Police
Sting: Unplugged
In Thanks We Trust
If on a Winter's Night ... Live from Durham Cathedral
The Police: Live At Rockpalast
Sting – Fields Of Gold - The Best Of Sting
The Police – Live Ghost In The Machine
The Police - Greatest Video Hits
In The City
Sting: Radio 2 in the Park
Sting - Fields Of Japan 1994
Sting - Live at iHeartRadio Music Festival 2016
Sting - 25 Years
The Police Rock in Rio - Live Madrid
STING: The Journey & The Labyrinth
Sting - Live at iHeartRadio
Kaamelott Premier Volet Director's cut
