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