Sting
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
270
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
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
The Graham Norton Show
Markus Lanz
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Bambi
The One Show
Only Murders in the Building
Leute heute
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
CBS News Sunday Morning
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Late Night with David Letterman
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
Champs-Elysées
Champs-Elysées
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
MTV Video Music Awards
Vivement dimanche
Sacrée Soirée
Inas Nacht
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Finding Your Roots
Bee Movie
Le monde est à vous
TOTP2
GMTV
The Oscars
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
Ally McBeal
The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra
American Music Awards
An Audience with...
Parkinson
The Larry Sanders Show
Dune
Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today
Star Academy
Kulturplatz
Behind the Music
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
Lo + plus
MTV Unplugged
Salut les Terriens !
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Biggest Band Break Ups and Make Ups
The Beatles Revolution
The Old Grey Whistle Test
Artemis '81
Live Aid
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Rove
Brüno
Jaco
Victoires de la musique
Radio On
WHAM!
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
Le Grand Concert Unis pour le Liban
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
Stormy Monday
The Michael J. Fox Show
Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
CMT Crossroads
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Legends
Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People
The Grotesque
Today
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
TFI Friday
Live 8
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
Radioman
Plenty
Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Zoolander 2
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Rockpalast
The Mighty
Brimstone & Treacle
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
An Audience with Elton John
Life's Too Short
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
George Michael: A Different Story
Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
Sting: Inside - The Songs of Sacred Love
Little Britain USA
Human Rights Now 25th Anniversary
The Bride
Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
The Max Headroom Show
Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy
The Book of Solutions
Peter Gabriel, Sting, & Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Now!
The Kenny Everett Video Show
The Filth and the Fury
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2012: Time for Change
Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
Under the Sun
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
U2 & The Police: A Conspiracy of Hope
Sonic Sea
Lubach
Under the Volcano
Julia and Julia
Quadrophenia
The Police: Ghost in the Machine Tour - Live at Gateshead
GIMS: On the Record
PoliWood
Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icône
The Queen's Birthday Party
The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration
America | A Tribute to Heroes
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Chris Botti & Friends - Night Sessions: Live in Concert
Sting: The Brand New Day Tour: Live From The Universal Amphitheatre
Christmas@Home 2022 Daniel Hope, Sting and Guests
Iain Goes Inside the Last Ship
Chris Botti in Boston
Sting Unplugged
Mylène Farmer: 2019 - Le Film
Bio’s Bahnhof
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
Attenborough at 90
The Dark Side of The Sun
Zucchero | Sugar Fornaciari
Reel Stories
Sting: Live In Berlin
Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who
MADtv
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
They All Came Out to Montreux
Al TV
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
Tina Turner : Celebrate!
Royal Opera House: Message in a Bottle
Sting: Live at the Olympia Paris
Sting & Shaggy au Château d'Hérouville
Live Aid
The Police: Around The World
Sting - Bring on the Night
Herb Alpert Is...
Sting: When the Last Ship Sails (Live at the Public Theater)
Sting: All this Time
The Police: Synchronicity Concert
Billy Joel: The 100th - Live at Madison Square Garden
Branford Marsalis: Steep
Sting Live At Irving Plaza
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
I Want My MTV
TV total
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
De TV Show
Catherine et Liliane
Sting : My Songs au château de Chambord
Chris Botti Live: With Orchestra and Special Guests
Great North: A Run. A River. A Region.
Twin Spirits: Sting performs Schumann
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
Mylène Farmer, l’Ultime Création
The Police: Better Than Therapy
Acceleration Punk
Police in Montserrat
All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
Take That Away!
Brian Johnson's A Life on the Road
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
The Soul Cages Concert
MTV Rockumentary
Pavarotti & Friends
When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain
20 Feet from Stardom
Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 3
Sting and Gil Evans: Strange Fruit
Sting - Live at iHeartRadio Music Festival 2016
Mylène Farmer : Les Clips L'Intégrale (1999-2020)
The Sweatbox
The Grammys
The Best of Max Headroom
Sting au Bataclan
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
Ruben Blades Is Not My Name
Space Songs: Through the Distance
Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story
Punk and Its Aftershocks
Still Bill
Urgh! A Music War
Dire Straits at Live Aid
Music for Montserrat
Eric Clapton: Standing at the Crossroads
FireAid Benefit Concert
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition
Sting: The Journey & The Labyrinth: The Music of John Dowland
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
Being Mick
Sting: A Winter's Night...Live From Durham Cathedral
Sting: Unplugged
One World, One Voice
Sting - 25 Years
Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special
Bruce Springsteen - 32nd Annual of Kennedy Center Honors
Sting and the Police at the BBC
The Police - Live '79 at Hatfield Polytechnic
Sting: Beyond The Police
Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
The Police: Certifiable
Sting au Panthéon (50 ans de FIP)
The Police: Live in Essen - Rockpalast 1980
Hope for Haiti Now
Destination Dune
Resident Alien
'Do They Know It's Christmas?' - The Story Of The Official Band Aid Video
The Police - Live in Rio
Gurrumul
The Police: Live In Concert Tokyo
In Thanks We Trust
The Very Best of Sting & The Police
Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Final - Buenos Aires
Talking Pictures: Quadrophenia
Sting - Grenzgänger und Freigeist
The Police - Live In Oakland
The Police – Live Ghost In The Machine
The Police - Outlandos To Synchronicities
Rock'n'roll... Of Corse!
Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats
Pavarotti The Duets
John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
The Police Rock in Rio - Live Madrid
Sting: A Free Man
Freedom Beat
CMT Crossroads: Sting and Vince Gill
Sting - Live at iHeartRadio
The Police: Live At Rockpalast
Sting: 57th and 9th - The Interviews
An Intimate Evening with Mary J. Blige - Live from the House of Blues
Dolly Parton - From Rhinestones to Rock & Roll
Sting at the Pantheon in Paris 50 Years of FIP Radio
Sting – Fields Of Gold - The Best Of Sting
Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward
The Police - Greatest Video Hits
Sting Festival de Viña del Mar
STING: The Journey & The Labyrinth
If on a Winter's Night ... Live from Durham Cathedral
Sting's 40th Birthday Celebration: Live from the Hollywood Bowl
Sting - Fields Of Japan 1994
Sting: Radio 2 in the Park
