This song later received Grammy Award as Best Pop Collaboration. In 2003 Sting released Sacred Love album, which was based on his experiments with hip-hop and soul music – for example, it featured a duo with Mary J. Fans decided to continue the concert, which was later released on DVD under the title. When the news about tragedy emerged, Sting asked audience if he should perform. The final show of the tour in support of this record was set to take place on 11 September 2001. The album represented Sting’s interest in Arabic music. Next album by Sting, 1996’s Mercury Falling, was not as fantastic-successful as his previous works, although it enjoyed strong sales and featured two successful singles, You Still Touch Me and I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying.Īnyway, Sting’s next record Brand New Day (2000) again became three times platinum, with its success based on such hits as Brand New Day and Desert Rose. Titled Ten Summoner's Tales (which is a wordplay based on his surname Sumner), it has reached triple-platinum status within only one year. Next singer’s album hit the stores in 1993. It also became platinum, featuring two chart-breaking singles, All This Time and The Soul Cages. As long as this record was dedicated to singer’s late mother, next album, The Soul Cages (1991), was devoted to Sting’s recently deceased father. It featured such world famous hits as We'll Be Together, Fragile, Englishman In New York and Be Still My Beating Heart. Nothing Like the Sun (1987) was even more successful, becoming double platinum. The record became platinum, but Sting’s next album. The album spawned a number of hits: If You Love Somebody Set Them Free, Fortress Around Your Heart and Russians. As well as The Police’s records, it was based on reggae and jazz mixed with pop tunes. Sting’s contribution to their success was great as he wrote most of the band’s hits, such as Every Breath You Take.Īnyway, in 1981 Sting left the band, and four years later his first solo album The Dream Of The Blue Turtles was released.
The band quickly rose to international fame. In 1977, singer formed The Police together with Stewart Copeland and Henry Padovani.
He was usually wearing sweater with a black and yellow stripes while performing onstage, so his friends gave him a nickname «Sting». Soon Sting started to play with local jazz bands. Cuthbert's High School in Newcastle, he got acquainted with music by such artists as Jimi Hendrix and Cream, who deeply influenced his style. All in all Sting contributed to numerous soundtracks, and acted in a number of movies, ranging from Dune to Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels.įamous singer was born 2 October 1951 in small town of Wallsend. In 1993 he united with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart to perform world-famous All For Love for the film The Three Musketeers. Being an excellent solo performer, he also is known for his collaborations – he recorded Come Down In Time with Elton John and became one of the writers of Dire Straits’ hit Money For Nothing. Known as The Police founder, great songwriter, famous singer and actor, he has a great number of honors to commemorate his achievements, ranging from sixteen Grammy Awards to both Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and the Songwriters Hall Of Fame membership. Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, known to the people all over the world as Sting, is undoubtedly one of the most successful British musicians of modern time.
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