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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English 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.
Sting with Diddy at the Grammy Awards in 2018 (Getty Images for NARAS) “Every Breath You Take” spent eight weeks at the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983, and remains The Police’s only No 1 in the US.
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The album was influenced by two events in Sting's life: first, the death in late 1986 of his mother, which contributed to the sombre tone of several songs; and second, his participation in the Conspiracy of Hope Tour on behalf of Amnesty International, which brought Sting to parts of Latin America that had been ravaged by civil wars, and introduced him to victims of government oppression.
Sting supported his wife ahead of her latest film premiere at this year's Rome Film Festival. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...
British musician Sting interrupted a concert in Warsaw on Saturday evening to warn his audience that democracy is under attack worldwide and to denounce the war in Ukraine as “an absurdity based ...
On 25 September 1976, [12] while on tour with the British progressive rock band Curved Air in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England, the band's American drummer, Stewart Copeland, met and exchanged phone numbers with ambitious singer-bassist Gordon Sumner, a.k.a. Sting, [13] who at the time was playing in a jazz-rock fusion band called Last Exit. [14]
Dierkop was a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.His first role as a professional actor was in television's Naked City. [2]Dierkop was cast in two George Roy Hill films, and played an outlaw both times — as "Flat Nose Curry" in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), he played a member of the Hole in the Wall Gang, [4] and as "Floyd" in The Sting (1973), he acted as a bodyguard with Lee ...