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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 2, 1951
Place of Birth
Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
Also Known As
- Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner
- The Police
- スティング
Sting
0.7 Popularity
Biography
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, activist, and actor. He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music. Sting has sold a combined total of more than 100 million records as a solo artist and as a member of the Police. He has received three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2002; a Golden Globe; an Emmy; and four Academy Award nominations. As a solo musician and as a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003. Sting has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors; a CBE from Queen Elizabeth II for services to music; Kennedy Center Honors; and the Polar Music Prize. In May 2023, he was made an Ivor Novello Fellow. Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born at Sir G B Hunter Memorial Hospital in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, on 2 October 1951, the eldest of four children of Audrey (née Cowell), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, a milkman and former fitter at an engineering works. He grew up near Wallsend's shipyards, which made an impression on him. As a child, he was inspired by the Queen Mother waving at him from a Rolls-Royce to divert from the shipyard prospect towards a more glamorous life. He helped his father deliver milk and by ten was "obsessed" with an old Spanish guitar left by an emigrating friend of his father. Sting attended St Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne. He visited nightclubs such as Club A'Gogo to see Cream and Manfred Mann, who influenced his music. He learned to sing and play simultaneously by listening to records at 78 rpm. After leaving school in 1969, he enrolled at the University of Warwick in Coventry, but left after a term. After working as a bus conductor, building labourer, and tax officer, he attended the Northern Counties College of Education (now Northumbria University) from 1971 to 1974 and qualified as a teacher.[20] He taught at St Paul's First School in Cramlington for two years. Sting performed jazz in the evenings, at weekends, and during breaks from college and teaching, playing with the Phoenix Jazzmen, Newcastle Big Band and Last Exit. He gained his nickname after his habit of wearing a black and yellow jumper with hooped stripes with the Phoenix Jazzmen. Bandleader Gordon Solomon thought he looked like a bee (or according to Sting himself, "they thought I looked like a wasp"), which prompted the name "Sting". In the 1985 documentary Bring On the Night a journalist called him Gordon, to which he replied, "My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, who is this Gordon character?" In 2011, he told Time "I was never called Gordon. You could shout 'Gordon' in the street and I would just move out of your way". Despite this, he chose not to legally change his name to "Sting". ... Source: Article "Sting (musician)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
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Horsa
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
2026
0.0
Self : Guest (virtual)
Gims à Paris la Défense Arena : le concert événement
2025
0.0
Self
In Thanks We Trust
2025
8.8
Self
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
2025
6.9
Self
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
2025
8.7
Self
When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain
2025
5.2
Lubach
2025
9.0
Self
FireAid Benefit Concert
2025
8.0
Self
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
2024
0.0
Self
Sting: Radio 2 in the Park
2024
Credits
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
as Horsa
2026
0.0
Gims à Paris la Défense Arena : le concert événement
as Self : Guest (virtual)
2025
0.0
In Thanks We Trust
as Self
2025
0.0
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
as Self
2025
8.8
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
as Self
2025
6.9
When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain
as Self
2025
8.7
Lubach
2025
5.2
FireAid Benefit Concert
as Self
2025
9.0
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
as Self
2024
8.0
Sting: Radio 2 in the Park
as Self
2024
0.0
Sting and the Police at the BBC
as Self
2024
6.5
Royal Opera House: Message in a Bottle
as Self - Lead Vocals
2024
0.0
Billy Joel: The 100th - Live at Madison Square Garden
as Self
2024
8.2
Dolly Parton - From Rhinestones to Rock & Roll
as Self
2023
0.0
Zucchero | Sugar Fornaciari
as Self
2023
7.4
Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
as Self
2023
8.0
WHAM!
as Self (archive footage)
2023
7.4
They All Came Out to Montreux
as Self
2023
8.5
The Book of Solutions
as Sting
2023
5.9
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
as Self (archive footage)
2022
6.6
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self
2022
8.2
Sting : My Songs au château de Chambord
as Self
2022
8.0
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
as Self
2022
0.0
Christmas@Home 2022 Daniel Hope, Sting and Guests
2022
0.0
Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story
as Self
2021
7.0
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021
4.0
Sting au Panthéon (50 ans de FIP)
as Self
2021
6.0
Great North: A Run. A River. A Region.
as Self
2021
0.0
Only Murders in the Building
as Sting
2021
8.5
Kaamelott: The First Chapter
as Horsa
2021
6.6
Mylène Farmer : Les Clips L'Intégrale (1999-2020)
as Self
2021
8.0
Under the Volcano
as Self
2021
7.0
Sting at the Pantheon in Paris 50 Years of FIP Radio
2021
0.0
Herb Alpert Is...
as Self
2020
7.2
Le Grand Concert Unis pour le Liban
as Self
2020
8.0
Mylène Farmer, l’Ultime Création
as Self
2020
7.0
GIMS: On the Record
as Self
2020
7.3
Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats
as Self
2020
9.5
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
as Self
2020
6.6
Space Songs: Through the Distance
as Self
2020
0.0
The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration
as Self
2019
7.8
Mylène Farmer: 2019 - Le Film
as Self
2019
8.6
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
as Self
2019
0.0
Sting & Shaggy au Château d'Hérouville
as Self
2019
9.0
I Want My MTV
as Self
2019
7.5
Reel Stories
as Self - Guest Star
2018
7.0
Gurrumul
as Self
2018
7.0
🎬
The Queen's Birthday Party
as Self - Performer
2018
0.0
Ruben Blades Is Not My Name
as Self
2018
6.4
Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
as Self - Performer
2018
10.0
Sting - Grenzgänger und Freigeist
as Self
2017
0.0
Sting: A Free Man
as Self
2017
7.5
Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
as Self
2017
8.0
Sting: Live at the Olympia Paris
as Self - Vocals, Bass, Guitar
2017
8.9
Sting: Beyond The Police
as Self - Musician
2017
5.5
Brian Johnson's A Life on the Road
as Self
2017
7.9
The Dark Side of The Sun
as Narrator
2017
7.2
Sting au Bataclan
as Self
2016
8.0
Sting: 57th and 9th - The Interviews
as Self
2016
0.0
Sting Live At Irving Plaza
as Self
2016
7.0
Sting - Live at iHeartRadio Music Festival 2016
as Self
2016
0.0
Rock'n'roll... Of Corse!
as Self
2016
7.0
Catherine et Liliane
as Sting
2016
1.0
Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People
as Self (archive footage)
2016
7.6
Attenborough at 90
as Self
2016
8.0
Sonic Sea
as Self
2016
7.0
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
as Self - Performer
2016
7.4
Zoolander 2
as Sting
2016
4.9
Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icône
as Self
2015
8.0
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest/Musical Guest
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
🎬
Biggest Band Break Ups and Make Ups
as Self
2015
0.0
Jaco
as Self
2015
7.5
Iain Goes Inside the Last Ship
as Self
2014
0.0
Sting: When the Last Ship Sails (Live at the Public Theater)
as Self - Host, Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Bass
2014
6.5
Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
as Self
2014
7.2
John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
as Self
2014
9.5
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
The Michael J. Fox Show
as Sting
2013
5.9
20 Feet from Stardom
as Self
2013
7.2
Radioman
as Self
2012
6.0
Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police
as Self
2012
6.4
Finding Your Roots
as Self
2012
6.6
🎬
CMT Crossroads: Sting and Vince Gill
as Self
2011
0.0
Life's Too Short
as Sting
2011
7.2
Sting - 25 Years
as Self - Vocals, Bass
2011
0.0
Sting Festival de Viña del Mar
as Self
2011
6.9
Sting: Live In Berlin
as Self - Performer
2010
7.7
2012: Time for Change
as Self
2010
6.1
Still Bill
as Self
2010
7.1
🎬
Hope for Haiti Now
as Self
2010
6.3
Sting - Fields Of Japan 1994
as Self
2010
8.0
Bruce Springsteen - 32nd Annual of Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
2009
0.0
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
as Self
2009
7.9
Sting: A Winter's Night...Live From Durham Cathedral
as Self
2009
7.0
🎬
If on a Winter's Night ... Live from Durham Cathedral
as Self
2009
4.2
Twin Spirits: Sting performs Schumann
as Robert Schumann
2009
0.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Brüno
as Self - 'Dove of Peace'
2009
5.6
PoliWood
as Self
2009
6.5
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
as Self
2009
8.0
Chris Botti in Boston
as Self
2009
5.0
The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra
as Self
2009
10.0
The Police: Certifiable
as Self - Bass, Vocals
2008
7.5
🎬
The Police: Better Than Therapy
as Self
2008
0.0
Little Britain USA
as Self
2008
6.8
The Police: Live In Concert Tokyo
as Self
2008
7.7
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
as Self
2008
0.0
Markus Lanz
as Self
2008
5.5
Pavarotti The Duets
as Self
2008
0.0
The Police Rock in Rio - Live Madrid
as Self
2008
0.0
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
as Self
2008
7.0
Bee Movie
as Sting (voice)
2007
6.0
Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who
as Self
2007
6.9
Inas Nacht
as Self
2007
7.8
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
as Self
2007
0.0
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
as Self
2007
7.0
Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out
as Self - The Police Member (archive footage)
2007
6.9
The Police - Greatest Video Hits
as Self (archive footage)
2007
7.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
🎬
STING: The Journey & The Labyrinth
as Self
2007
0.0
🎬
The Police - Live in Rio
as Self
2007
0.0
Legends
as Self
2006
5.0
Salut les Terriens !
as Self - Guest
2006
3.7
Chris Botti Live: With Orchestra and Special Guests
as Self
2006
6.8
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
as Self
2006
7.3
The One Show
as Self
2006
4.4
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
as Self
2006
5.4
Live 8
as Self
2005
7.4
An Intimate Evening with Mary J. Blige - Live from the House of Blues
as Self
2005
0.0
Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today
as Self
2005
0.0
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
as Self - Musical Guest
2004
7.2
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
as Self
2004
4.8
George Michael: A Different Story
as Self
2004
6.3
Live Aid
as Self
2004
9.2
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition
as Self
2004
0.0
Kulturplatz
as Self
2004
6.0
Sting: The Journey & The Labyrinth: The Music of John Dowland
as Self
2004
0.0
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
as Self
2004
9.5
Sting: Inside - The Songs of Sacred Love
as Self - Bass, Guitar, Lead Vocals
2003
7.7
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
The Police - Every Breath You Take
as Self - Bass, Vocals
2003
7.1
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
Freedom Beat
as Self
2003
0.0
The Sweatbox
as Self
2002
6.9
Chris Botti & Friends - Night Sessions: Live in Concert
as Self
2002
6.9
CMT Crossroads
as Self
2002
8.3
Sting: All this Time
as Self - Lead Singer
2001
7.2
Being Mick
as Self
2001
0.0
Star Academy
as Self
2001
5.8
The Police: Ghost in the Machine Tour - Live at Gateshead
as Self
2001
0.0
America | A Tribute to Heroes
as Self - Performer
2001
6.2
All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
as Self
2001
0.0
🎬
The Beatles Revolution
as Self
2000
0.0
Sting: The Brand New Day Tour: Live From The Universal Amphitheatre
as Self - Vocals, Bass
2000
7.4
The Filth and the Fury
as Self (archive footage)
2000
6.9
Tina Turner : Celebrate!
as Self
1999
8.7
Eric Clapton: Standing at the Crossroads
as Self
1999
7.0
Rove
as Self
1999
8.0
🎬
Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward
as Self
1999
0.0
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
as Self - Guest
1999
4.6
TV total
as Self
1999
6.2
Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998
3.0
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
as JD
1998
8.1
The Mighty
as The Balladeer
1998
7.2
Parkinson
as Self
1998
0.0
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
as Billy Idol
1998
7.7
The Very Best of Sting & The Police
as Self (archive footage)
1997
0.0
An Audience with Elton John
as Self
1997
0.0
Music for Montserrat
as Self
1997
6.4
Ally McBeal
as Sting
1997
6.6
Behind the Music
as Self
1997
7.2
🎬
Leute heute
as Self
1997
4.8
The Police – Live Ghost In The Machine
as Self - Vocals, Bass
1996
8.0
TFI Friday
as Self
1996
6.8
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
as Self
1995
3.0
MADtv
as Self
1995
7.0
The Grotesque
as Fledge
1995
5.1
The Police - Outlandos To Synchronicities
as Self
1995
0.0
Lo + plus
as Self - Guest
1995
0.0
Sting – Fields Of Gold - The Best Of Sting
as Self (archive footage)
1994
8.0
TOTP2
as Self
1994
5.5
Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy
as Narrator (voice)
1993
7.0
Take That Away!
as Self
1993
0.0
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
GMTV
as Self
1993
5.6
🎬
Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special
as Self
1992
0.0
Pavarotti & Friends
as Self
1992
8.5
The Larry Sanders Show
as Sting
1992
7.7
Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin
as Self - Guest
1991
6.3
Sting's 40th Birthday Celebration: Live from the Hollywood Bowl
as Self - Vocals, Bass, Guitar
1991
0.0
The Soul Cages Concert
as Self
1991
0.0
🎬
Sting Unplugged
as Self - Double Bass, Vocals
1991
4.0
Sting: Unplugged
as Self
1991
5.5
Branford Marsalis: Steep
as Self
1991
0.0
One World, One Voice
as Self
1990
0.0
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
as Zarm (voice)
1990
6.8
Resident Alien
as Singer
1990
4.7
The Simpsons
as Sting (voice)
1989
8.0
MTV Unplugged
as Self
1989
6.8
MTV Rockumentary
as Self
1989
7.0
🎬
Under the Sun
as Self
1989
0.0
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
as Heroic Officer
1988
7.0
Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Final - Buenos Aires
as Self
1988
8.0
🎬
Peter Gabriel, Sting, & Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Now!
as Self - Musician
1988
0.0
Human Rights Now 25th Anniversary
as Self - Musician
1988
0.0
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self
1988
5.4
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
as Self
1988
6.0
Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 3
as Self
1988
0.0
Stormy Monday
as Finney
1988
5.7
Julia and Julia
as Daniel Hosler
1988
4.9
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
as Self
1988
10.0
Le monde est à vous
as Self
1987
0.0
Sacrée Soirée
as Self
1987
5.1
Sting and Gil Evans: Strange Fruit
as Self - Vocals, Electric Bass
1987
0.0
The Best of Max Headroom
as Self
1987
0.0
🎬
U2 & The Police: A Conspiracy of Hope
as Self
1986
0.0
Victoires de la musique
as Self
1985
1.5
Sting - Bring on the Night
as Self
1985
6.9
Plenty
as Mick
1985
5.7
The Bride
as Frankenstein
1985
5.3
Live Aid
as Self
1985
7.9
Dire Straits at Live Aid
as Self
1985
7.0
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
as Machiavelli
1985
0.0
The Max Headroom Show
as Self
1985
7.5
Dune
as Feyd Rautha
1984
6.2
'Do They Know It's Christmas?' - The Story Of The Official Band Aid Video
as Self
1984
0.0
MTV Video Music Awards
as Self
1984
7.7
The Police: Synchronicity Concert
as Self - Bass, Vocals
1984
9.0
Al TV
as Self (archive footage)
1984
6.3
The Police - Live In Oakland
as Self - Vocals, Bass
1983
0.0
Police in Montserrat
as Self
1983
8.0
Destination Dune
as Self
1983
5.0
Brimstone & Treacle
as Martin Taylor
1982
5.8
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
as Self
1982
6.0
Late Night with David Letterman
as Self
1982
5.9
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
Champs-Elysées
as Self - The Police
1982
6.3
The Police: Around The World
as Self
1982
8.0
Artemis '81
as Helith
1981
3.5
Urgh! A Music War
as Self
1981
7.3
De TV Show
as Self
1981
0.0
The Police: Live in Essen - Rockpalast 1980
as Self
1980
0.0
Punk and Its Aftershocks
as Self
1980
6.5
The Police: Live At Rockpalast
as Self - Vocals, Bass
1980
8.0
Radio On
as Just Like Eddie
1979
5.8
Quadrophenia
as Ace Face
1979
7.0
🎬
Talking Pictures: Quadrophenia
as Interviewee
1979
0.0
The Police - Live '79 at Hatfield Polytechnic
as Self
1979
8.0
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979
6.9
The Kenny Everett Video Show
1978
7.7
🎬
Bio’s Bahnhof
as Self
1978
0.0
An Audience with...
as Self
1978
5.3
Acceleration Punk
as Self
1977
0.0
The Secret Policeman's Ball
as Self
1976
5.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host & Musical Guest
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Musical Guest
1975
7.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
Rockpalast
1974
10.0
American Music Awards
as Self - Musical Guest
1974
8.2
The Old Grey Whistle Test
as Self
1971
7.5
🎬
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
as Self
1967
6.0
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
as Self - The Police
1963
4.7
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
as Self - Musical Guest
1963
4.7
The Grammys
as Self
1959
8.6
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Today
as Self
1952
5.6
Bambi
as Self
1948
9.0
🎬
Sting - Live at iHeartRadio
as Self
N/A
0.0