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Sting recorded a new version of the song "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" as a duet with Glee actor/singer Matthew Morrison, which appears on Morrison's 2011 eponymous debut album. [82] On 15 September 2011, Sting performed "Fragile" at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, to honour the memory of his friend, financier-philanthropist Herman Sandler ...
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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]
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The discography of British singer Sting. Born Gordon Sumner in 1951, he was a member of the jazz group Last Exit , who released a cassette album in 1975. With The Police (1977–1986, occasional reunions thereafter), Sting sold over 100 million records and singles.
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.
The singer, 72, attended the Feb. 25 premiere with daughter Mickey Sumner four decades after he appeared in the first film adaptation of “Dune” in 1984, the same year Sumner was born.
In 2007, the French government awarded Sting (along with Police bandmates Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland) as Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres). [4] Sting was honored by the Upright Citizens Brigade team, Fambly, in the form of a 30-minute sketch comedy show devoted to the 1999 song "Brand ...