Stewart Copeland

Stewart Copeland is one of those musicians who makes you realize that being in one of the biggest bands in the world was somehow just the opening act of his career. As the drummer for the Police, he was the rhythmic engine behind some of the most distinctive rock of the late '70s and early '80s — that tight, reggae-inflected, almost surgical precision he brought to tracks like "Roxanne" and "Every Breath You Take" wasn't just good drumming, it was architecture. What really gets me though is what he did after the Police dissolved: he pivoted into film and TV scoring and built a whole second career composing music for movies, operas, and video games including the original Spyro the Dragon soundtrack. Most rock legends coast on nostalgia. Copeland kept building. Born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1952, the son of a CIA officer, he grew up bouncing between the Middle East and the UK — which probably explains why his musical brain works in such an international, hard-to-categorize way. A genuinely rare case of a rock star who never stopped evolving.

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Name (English)

Stewart Copeland

Name (Japanese)

スチュワート・コープランド

Reading

すちゅわーと・こーぷらんど

Born

July 16, 1952 (age 74)

Origin

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Occupation

composer / drummer / film score composer / percussionist / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dragon

• Official sitehttps://www.stewartcopeland.net
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/stewart_copeland/
• Xhttps://x.com/copelandmusic
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%20Copeland
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315711

Tags

• Virginia
• composer
• drummer
• film score composer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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