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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner – Sting

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">According to Neil Tennant&comma; people become emotionally frozen at whatever age they become famous&period; Michael Jackson was forever doomed to be age 10&comma; and Van Morrison will never quite shake off the grumpy teenage frontman for Them&period; Yet Sting was already an articulate&comma; erudite man&comma; a 27-year-old who paid rent and taxes and had had other lives before he made it big as a frontman for the Police&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Sting was responsible for everything from &&num;8220&semi;Roxanne&comma;&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8220&semi;Every Breath You Take&comma;&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;Message in a Bottle&&num;8221&semi; while with the new wave band&period; But while on stage at Shea Stadium&comma; he decided to leave the band &&num;8212&semi; he felt that venue was Everest&comma; and they simply couldn&&num;8217&semi;t go any higher&period; &lpar;The band reformed for a world tour in 2007&comma; partly because Sting felt he owed a debt to his old bandmates&period; Sting has told the press that the tour was &&num;8220&semi;a fucking great payday for them&period;&&num;8221&semi;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Sting&&num;8217&semi;s first solo album was The Dream of the Blue Turtles&comma; backed by jazz musicians&comma; and released in 1985&period; It went Triple Platinum within a year&comma; receiving four Grammy nominations&period; He went on to put out a series of successful solo records&comma; including 1987&&num;8217&semi;s Nothing Like The Sun&comma; 1991&&num;8217&semi;s Soul Cages&comma; 1993&&num;8217&semi;s Ten Summoner&&num;8217&semi;s Tales&comma; and 1996&&num;8217&semi;s Mercury Falling&period; He recorded a wildly diverse range of music in this period&comma; everything from intriguing instrumental pieces to upbeat popular songs to haunting ballads&period; His success on the charts was marked by singles such as &&num;8220&semi;Fields of Gold&comma;&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8220&semi;If I Ever Lose My Faith In You&comma;&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;Englishman in New York&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-504" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;10&sol;sting&lowbar;071408&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner - Sting" width&equals;"350" height&equals;"250" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Sting didn&&num;8217&semi;t stop at musical experimentation and exploration&comma; he also found some time for acting during this period&period; He appeared in the 1984 science-fiction drama Dune&comma; in the very popular 1998 British crime movie Lock&comma; Stock&comma; and Two Smoking Barrels&period; He also worked on soundtracks for 1998&&num;8217&semi;s The Mighty&comma; 1999&&num;8217&semi;s The Thomas Crown Affair&comma; and 2000&&num;8217&semi;s The Emperor&&num;8217&semi;s New Groove&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Sting&&num;8217&semi;s most popular solo album so far came out in 1999&comma; called Brand New Day&period; It starts off with an optimistic title track &lpar;which won Sting a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance&rpar; that brought Sting world-wide acclaim&period; More recent albums include 2001&&num;8217&semi;s All This Time&comma; 2003&&num;8217&semi;s Sacred Love&comma; and 2006&&num;8217&semi;s Songs from the Labyrinth &&num;8212&semi; a recording of 1600s-era English music&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">His most recent effort is the musical&comma; The Last Ship&comma; which tells the story of the Newcastle shipbuilding industry&&num;8217&semi;s demise&period; The musical debuted in Chicago earlier this year and is now playing on Broadway&period; The studio album for the musical came out in late 2013&comma; tickets for Sting concerts for this album were particularly scarce as he performed the album in a series of small benefit shows&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Sting has been involved in a variety of causes outside music&comma; most notably Amnesty International&period; Sting performed at the 4th Amnesty gala&comma; &&num;8220&semi;The Secret Policeman&&num;8217&semi;s Other Ball&&num;8221&semi; in 1981&comma; and he followed on by playing at many of Amnesty&&num;8217&semi;s other human rights concerts from 1986 to 1998&period; He also notably canceled a concert in Kazakhstan after Amnesty International persuaded him there were serious concerns about rights of oil and gas workers in Kazakhstan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Sting has been married to his wife&comma; Trudie Styler&comma; since 1992&period; They have four children&comma; and Sting has two more children from his previous marriage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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