Sting

Acting

Born Oct 02, 1951

From Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK

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.

Sting

Known For

Dune

Bee Movie

Zoolander 2

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Brüno

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Mighty

The Bride

Quadrophenia

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Filmography — Acting

Dune

Bee Movie

Zoolander 2

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Brüno

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Mighty

The Bride

Quadrophenia

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Plenty

Live Aid

Live 8

Kaamelott: The First Chapter

Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics

America | A Tribute to Heroes

Radioman

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman

20 Feet from Stardom

WHAM!

Radio On

VH1 Rock Honors: The Who

The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts

The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice!

PoliWood

The Sweatbox

The Big Night In

Stormy Monday

Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People

Artemis '81

The Filth and the Fury

Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation

The Grotesque

Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

Live Aid

Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon

John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly

Destination Dune

Brimstone & Treacle

The Beatles Revolution

Sting: Live In Berlin

The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra

Tina Turner : Celebrate!

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)

FireAid Benefit Concert

2012: Time for Change

Julia and Julia

Being Mick

Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin

An Audience with Elton John

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today

The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert

Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB

Urgh! A Music War

Sting: Live at the Olympia Paris

Under the Volcano

The Book of Solutions

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

Chris Botti in Boston

Dolly Parton - From Rhinestones to Rock & Roll

Sting: Unplugged

Attenborough at 90

Billy Joel: The 100th - Live at Madison Square Garden

Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police