Sting

Also known as Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, Gordon Sumner, G.M. Sumner

British musician (born 1951)

OverviewAI-generated

Sting is a male English musician and singer-songwriter whose career began in 1971. Born on October 2, 1951, he performs under the pseudonym "Sting." His musical output spans various genres, including rock, pop, jazz, dance-rock, and adult contemporary. He has been associated with artists such as The Police, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, and Dire Straits.

His discography includes works such as *Ten Summoner's Tales*, *Fields of Gold The Best of Sting*, and *Sting rock score*. He is also credited as the author of *View from the Side : Stories and Perspectives on the Music Business*. Sting has received recognition in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, Europeana Sparql, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works: 48

Top works

View from the Side : Stories and Perspectives on the Music Business
Sting rock score
Fields of Gold The Best of Sting
Ten Summoner's Tales
How Soon Is Now?

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: England
Active from: 1951-10-02

adult contemporaryclassicaldance-rockjazzjazz popnew wave

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 2,780,923
Total plays: 64,249,052

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Self‐Regeneration of Stereocenters (SRS)—Applications, Limitations, and Abandonment of a Synthetic Principle
· 1996 · cited 452x
Establishing guidelines to harmonize tumor mutational burden (TMB): in silico assessment of variation in TMB quantification across diagnostic platforms: phase I of the Friends of Cancer Research TMB Harmonization Project
· 2020 · cited 439x
Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging
· 2023 · cited 421x
Genome sequence of <i>Haloarcula marismortui</i>: A halophilic archaeon from the Dead Sea
· 2004 · cited 261x
Detection of all Chlamydophila and Chlamydia spp. of veterinary interest using species-specific real-time PCR assays
· 2010 · cited 165x

via Crossref · CC0

Music

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Quotes

“Dissent is a legitimate and essential right in any democracy and modern politicians must accept this fact with tolerance. A sense of proportion — and a sense of humour — is a sign of strength, not a sign of weakness.”
“Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos. Our song Synchronicity II is about two parallel events that aren't connected logically or causally, but symbolically.”
“We are a parliamentary democracy; we don’t function by plebiscite. It’s dangerous. I don’t believe in referendums – Hitler and Mussolini organised referendums”
“I am the first male in the family not having had to shoot against another European”
“Democracy is under attack. It's under attack in every country in the world. It's in grave danger of being lost unless we defend it.”
“The alternative to democracy is a nightmare, a prison, of the mind. That alternative is tyranny. All tyranny is based on a lie. The greater the tyranny, the bigger the lie.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Sting, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

The very best of unplugged / Eric Clapton, Sting, Sheryl Crow ... [et al.]

Unplugged 2 /Sting, Chris Isaak, The Cranberries ... [et al]

~40 min read

Encyclopedic 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.

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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