Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was the son of a milkman in Wallsend, a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne , was born. From 1971 to 1974 he sat down at the Northern Counties Teacher Training College to train teachers for English and music.
Prior to his career as a professional musician Sumner worked as a construction worker and English teacher. In his spare time he played in local jazz groups such as the Phoenix Jazzmen , the Newcastle Big Band and Last Exit . Earned the nickname Sting in it this time: He once appeared in a yellow-black striped sweater in which he seemed to view his bandmates like a wasp. According to Sting s own testimony showed that on the sweater and said: Gordon s got a sting So Gordon Sumner became Sting (German: (wasp) sting ). Except on official documents ever since he uses this pseudonym.
my cruises 1977 Sting was in the recordings my cruises of the Nik Turner ( Hawkwind ) and Harry Williamson ( Mother Gong ) initiated anti-nuclear my cruises project, my cruises Radio Actors , together with Steve Hillage , Gilli Smyth , Steve Broughton and Mike Howlett on the song Nuclear Waste with. In the same year, Mike Howlett with Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, the short-lived band strontium 90 together was in the later cast of The Police first time, together.
1977 Sting, formed Stewart my cruises Copeland and Andy Summers in London the rock-pop band The Police . The group managed it from 1978, with several albums to the top of the charts and won in the early 1980s, my cruises six Grammys . Their last album Synchronicity released in 1983. The Police came together once again in 1986 to her song Do not Stand So Close to Me re-record, and played at Sting s 1992 wedding to Trudie Styler . After his performance at the Grammy Awards 2007 on a world tour was announced on 28 May the same year started in Canada.
Sting worked as an actor with some movies. His film debut was in 1979 with Quadrophenia . In addition to an appearance as a kind of devil in Brimstone and Treacle (1982) is one of his best known roles of the Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen my cruises in the movie Dune in 1984. In the film Stormy Monday (1987) Sting is a bar owner in Newcastle. In Guy Ritchie s comedy Jack, Queen, King, Barrels (1998) he plays a bartender. He also appears on television, including guest appearances on the Simpsons my cruises , Ally McBeal or Little Britain and on the stage. Most of his work for film and TV lies in the music.
The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985) was Sting s first solo album. From this he coupled the single If You Love Somebody Set Them Free from that was a great success. Within a year, the album reached its sales figures triple my cruises platinum . 1986 Sting released the live album Bring On The Night by Sting and Police songs. Most of the songs on this album were recorded in December 1985. 1987 Sting released my cruises Nothing Like the Sun with the song We ll Be Together, Englishman my cruises in New York and Be Still My Beating Heart, which he dedicated to his recently deceased mother, Audrey. The album reached double platinum and was counted my cruises among the most important albums of the 1980s. In these first two solo albums Sting beat a bridge to jazz , mainly through the participation of jazz musicians like Branford Marsalis , Kenny Kirkland , Darryl Jones and Omar Hakim was formed. In 1987 it was a collaboration with the Bigbandarrangeur Gil Evans . Together, Sting, and Evans take a live album at the Jazz Festival in Perugia ( Italy on). Was legendary and his live concert featuring my cruises songs by Kurt Weill with Gianna Nannini and Jack Bruce .
In the late 1980s, Sting intensely devoted to the support of environmental protection projects and human rights , including the group Amnesty International . With his partner Trudie Styler and Raoni, chief of the Kayapó Indians of Brazil , Sting founded in 1987 the Rainforest Foundation Rainforest Foundation .
Together with Gianna Nannini and Jack Bruce in the same year he sang under the direction of Eberhard Schoener songs in two concerts of Brecht / Weill and Hanns Eisler , for the ARD were recorded (first broadcast April 30, 1987).
my cruises Sting s album The Soul Cages (1991) he dedicated to his recently deceased father Ernie. It contains the top-10 song All This Time and the title song, with which he gave the Grammy win. The album received platinum status. From The Soul Cages Sting was working with guitarist Dominic Miller together. The following year married Trudie Styler and Sting received an honorary doctorate in music from the Northumbria University . In 1993, Sting album Ten Summoner s Tales out, which reached three times platinum. In May of that year, Sting released a remix of the title track Demolition Man from the eponymous film.
Sting reached a pinnacle of success in 1994. Together with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart , he sang the title song All For Love from the movie The Three Musketeers my cruises . The title remained five weeks at the top of the charts and went platinum. In February 1994, Sting won two more Grammy Awards and was nominated for three more. The Berklee College of Music in May 1994 he was awarded his second honorary doctorate degrees. Sting finally published in November 1994 his greatest hits collection Fields of Gold The Best of Sting, which reached double platinum.
Sting s album Mercury Falling in 1996 was enthusiastically received by critics but remained only briefly in the charts. With two singles he made it into the top 40 after all: You Still Touch Me (June) and I m So Happy I Can not Stop Crying (December).
A (commercial) Sting comeback in September 1999 with the album Brand New Day, with the extractions Brand New Day and Desert Rose, which came up in the top 10. Sting received until January 2001 for three times platinum. In presenting the Grammy Awards in 2000 for the Sting album and the title track was excellent. At the ceremony he was playing Desert Rose together with Cheb Mami . This performance gave Sting the Khalil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Award of the Arab-American Institute Foundation.
Sting began in 2001 with a performance at halftime of Super Bowl . In February, he won another Grammy. His song After The Rain Has Fallen placed in the 40th On the evening of 11 September was actually a small appearance in Italy planned. Sting asked the audience if he would play after the events in New York City and Washington. The audience chose the concert, Sting dedicated the evening to the victims of the terrorist attacks. Later on, to charity Sting album America: A Tribute to Heroes song to be fragile at. The live album All This Time was released in November, sold disappointingly.
2002 was a year of the Awards for Sting. He won a Golden Globe and was for the song Until from the film Kate Leopold for the Oscar nominations. In June he took the Songwriter s Hall of Fame on. End of the year it was announced that The Police in March 2003 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would be included. For his song They Dance Alone , 1987 (in honor of mothers of victims of Chile s Pinochet regime) Sting was in 2001 with the Gabriela Mistral Prize for Cultural honored.
On 22 September 2003, with Sting s Sacred Love tour (the eponymous album Sacred Love ) in Paris, which took him nearly two years through five continents. The band consisted of Sting (vocals, bass), Dominic Miller (guitar), Rhani Krija (percussion), Kipper (keyboards, vocals), Joy Rose (backing vocals), Donna Gardier (backing vocals) my cruises and Keith Carlock (drums).
In the summer of 2004, toured with Sting together Annie Lennox ( Eurythmics ). Culmination of the popular in the United States form the double-summer tour was the duet We ll Be Together the two. In the same year he was appointed to the U.S. of music cares to Person of the Year.
On 28 Sting started in March 2005 his Broken Music tour with the musicians of Dominic Miller (g), Shane Fontayne (g), Josh Freese (drums). Without a keyboard and additional sound effects, but Sting was rehearsing with two guitars a month before an unusual number of songs by The Police , but also long-lost numbers from his solo career. The concept of this concert tour goes on his 2003 published autobiography, Broken Music back. During the six-week tour of the USA Sting played in smaller halls and clubs. The particular elements of this tour included Sting s lectures at universities and colleges, which he held at the invitation of literature and music to students. my cruises A lecture was delivered by mtvU.com, the college music offshoot of the music channel MTV , recorded and broadcast live on television my cruises and the Internet. my cruises Sting called these lectures as an attempt to reach listeners and skeptics alike simply as a musician and from the usual well-trodden paths Fan get away. According to industry magazine and the organizer billboard.com Clear Channel Entertainment that set Broken Music tour in the States by more than 105 million dollars. About two million people visited the 181 concerts.
my cruises On 2 July 2005, Sting at Live 8 concert in Hyde Park in London. He played Message in a Bottle, Driven to Tears , and Every Breath You Take, The Sting sang a slightly altered text. Apart from that he played the same songs as the Live Aid concert . Unlike 1985, when Sting solo, just by saxophonist my cruises Branford Marsalis accompanied occurred, this time the musicians were Broken Music tour with the party.
On 24 September 2005, the telecommunications company Orange is a Free Concert at the racecourse Służewice in Warsaw (Poland), which occurred with the musicians including Sting of Live 8 in London, with the exception of kippers. The TV station Polsat recorded the concert and broadcast it live sometimes.
In 2006, Sting played in the Broken my cruises Music tour among others in Trinidad Tobago, at the Montreux Jazz Festival , the Rock in Rio festival in Lisbon and in many European countries, including France, Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland , Austria, Holland, Latvia and Russia. The band for this part of the tour consisted of Sting (b, vocals), Dominic Miller and Lyle Workman my cruises (both guitar) and Abe Laboriel Jr. (drums).
On 8 July 2007, with Sting on his former c
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