Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, known as Sting, is an English musician. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984. With the Police, Sting became one of the world’s best-selling music artists. Solo and with the Police combined, he has sold over 100 million records. He is married to singer-songwriter-actress Toni Garrn and has four children.
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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, known as Sting, is an English musician. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984. He has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age and worldbeat in his music. With the Police, Sting became one of the world’s best-selling music artists. Solo and with the Police combined, he has sold over 100 million records. In 2018, he released the album 44876, a collaboration with Jamaican musician Shaggy, which won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 2019. In 2003, Sting received a CBE from Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for services to music. In 2006, Paste ranked him 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters. He was 63rd of VH1’s 100 greatest artists of rock. In 2011, he told Time: ‘I was never called Sting. You could shout ‘Gordon’ in the street and I would just move out of your way’ In 1983, Sting moved from Newcastle to London and joined the Police. Their final album, Synchronicity, was nominated for five Grammy Awards including the Album of the Year in 1983. It included their most successful song, \”Every Breath You Take\”, which won six Grammy Awards and won two Brit Awards. In 2013, he was awarded the Polar Music Prize at the White House for his work in music. He is married to singer-songwriter-actress Toni Garrn and has four children.
He also has a son and two step-children. He lives in London with his wife and three children, and has a daughter and a son-in-law in the U.S. and a step-son in Canada. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his partner of 20 years, Tanya Taga, and their two children. In 2002, he received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2009, he won a Golden Globe, an Emmy and four nominations for the Academy Award for best original song. In 2015, he became the most played song in radio history with his hit song, ‘Every breath You Take’. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording in 2000, and a star in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2000. In 2012, he moved from London to New York and joined Stewart Copeland and Henry Padovani in the Copeland Copeland band. In 2014, he joined the Phoenix Jazzmen, Newcastle Big Band, and Last Exit. He performed jazz in the evening, weekends and during breaks from college and teaching, playing with the Phoenix jazzmen. He taught at St Paul’s First School in Cramlington for two years. He played with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, and introduced the North African music genre raï to Western audiences through the hit song ‘Desert Rose’ with Alison Krauss.
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