DOB: Oct. 2, 1951
Where: Wallsend, England
Genres: rock, pop, new wave, jazz, new age, blue-eyed soul
Occupations: musician, producer, singer-songwriter
Instruments: vocals, bass guitar, guitar, double bass, keyboards, lute
Years Active: 1971-present
Website: www.sting.com
-Best known as the lead singer of The Police
Early Life
-Oldest of 4 kids born to Audrey, a hairdresser and Ernest Matthew Sumner, a milkman and engineer
-When he was young, he would sneak into clubs to see people like Cream and Jimi Hendrix
-Worked as a schoolteacher at St. Paul's First School for 2 years
Music
-In January 1977, moved to London and joined Stuart Copeland and Henry Padovani to form The Police
-Between 1978-1983, they released 5 chart topping albums and won 6 Grammy awards.
-Synchronocity was the last album The Police released together before Sting decided to go solo
-September 1981: Sting makes his first solo appearance. Peformed "Roxanne" "Message in a Bottle". His first solo album was called The Dream of the Blue Turtles and was released in 1985
-On February 11, 2007, he was the intoductory act for the 2007 Grammy Awards, singing "Roxanne".
Personal Life
-Married film producer Trudie Styler on August 20, 1992, they have 4 kids: Bridget Michael, Jake, Eliot Pauline, Giacomo Luke
Acting
Sting occasionally has ventured into acting. Film and television roles include:
- The Ace Face, the King of The Mods, a.k.a. The Bell Boy in the movie adaptation of The Who album Quadrophenia (1979)
- Radio On : Just Like Eddie (1980)
- The angel Helith in the BBC TV film Artemis 81 (1981)
- Martin Taylor, a drifter in Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
- Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in the movie Dune (1984)
- Steerpike in two BBC Radio 4 broadcasts based on the Mervyn Peake novels: Titus Groan and Gormenghast (1984)
- Mick, a black-marketeer in Plenty (1985)
- Baron Frankenstein in The Bride (1985)
- A "heroic officer" in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
- Finney, a nightclub owner in Stormy Monday (1988)
- Daniel, a British gentleman in Julia and Julia (1988)
- Billy Idol in a Saturday Night Live sketch (1991)
- Himself on The Simpsons episode "Radio Bart" (1992)
- Himself on The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer Episode 5 (1995)
- Fledge in The Grotesque (1995), in which he appears nude
- Himself in The Larry Sanders Show episode "Where Is the Love?" (1996)
- J.D., Eddie's father and owner of a bar, in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
- Himself in Ally McBeal season four episode "Cloudy Skies, Chance of Parade" (2001)
- Himself in Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out (2006)
- Himself in Studio 60 on Sunset Strip 2006
- Himself on the Vicar of Dibley Comic Relief special (2007)
- Himself in Bee Movie (2007)
- Himself, mistaken by Tom Baker for Stomp, the lead singer of "The Cops" in Little Britain USA (2008) He plays his own song, "Fields of Gold"
- Himself in Brüno (2009)
- Himself in Still Bill (2009)
- Himself in Do It Again (2010)
- Himself in Life's Too Short (2011)
Sting narrated the American premiere of the musical Yanomamo (1983), by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon, outlining problems that existed in the Amazon rainforest. This was made into a film and later broadcast asSong of the Forest. He also provided the voice of Zarm on the 1990s television show Captain Planet and the Planeteers. In 1989 he starred as Macheath (Mack the Knife) in John Dexter's Broadway production ofThe Threepenny Opera. Sting also appeared as himself in the video game Guitar Hero World Tour.
