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Sting

スティング　/　すてぃんぐ

Actor from United Kingdom

October 2, 1951 (age 74)　・　Wallsend, United Kingdom

actor
singer-songwriter
bassist

My Take

Sting earns my deepest respect for refusing to stay in any box. The shipbuilding town of Wallsend produced a bassist who conquered rock with the Police, then risked everything on a solo career stitching together jazz, reggae, and classical music, a move that could have ended him and instead made him timeless. I hear in Englishman in New York a personal manifesto: be yourself, whatever the cost. Few songwriters match his melodic instinct, and fewer still keep evolving past seventy. The Kennedy Center Honors and the Polar Music Prize feel less like awards than acknowledgments of the obvious. He is a lifetime companion for my ears.

Overview

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician and actor. He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for the rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984 and briefly during 1986 and 2007–08. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Sting
Name (Japanese): スティング
Reading: すてぃんぐ
Born: October 2, 1951 (age 74)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Libra / Rabbit
Origin: Wallsend, United Kingdom
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: actor / singer-songwriter / bassist / guitarist / composer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: St. Cuthbert's High School
University: University of Warwick

Awards & achievements

Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program
2004 MusiCares Person of the Year
David Angell Humanitarian Award
2017 Polar Music Prize
Kennedy Center Honors
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
2016 German Radio Award

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role
Notable work	Every Breath You Take	—
Notable work	Fields of Gold	—
Notable work	Englishman in New York	—

6. Links

Official sitehttps://www.sting.com/
Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/theofficialsting/
Xhttps://x.com/OfficialSting
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%20(%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3)

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