Sting

Date de naissance
2 octobre 1951 · Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
Nom de naissance
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner
Taille
1,79 m

High-pitched raspy voice
Fender Precision bass guitar
Literary references in his songs. (Roxanne is named for the heroine of Cyrano de Bergerac. "Moon Over Bourbon Street" was inspired by Interview with the Vampire. "Wrapped Around Your Finger" references Scylla and Charibdes, two dangerous islands from The Odyssey. "Don't Stand Too Close to Me" references Lolita, "that book by Nobokov.")
Blond spiky hair and bold blue eyes
Writing songs about wide-ranging themes, which have included political, social and environmental subjects

Sting takes in an average of $2,000 per day in royalties for this now 20-year-old song, "Every Breath You Take." The song is officially the most requested radio song of all time.
He wrote his most popular song "Every Breath You Take" after waking up in the middle of the night from a dream.
His album with The Police, "Synchronicity", was the album that finally knocked Michael Jackson's "Thriller", the best selling album of all time, out of the number one spot it held for most of 1983.
His favorite music is actually jazz.
He is a former bus conductor and tax officer.

My job is being a musician [...] I just make films for fun, really.
I'm bored with music between 1955 and 1980. I'm completely bored. I can't listen to a rock and roll record. I can't do it. I would rather listen to hogs screwing.
It was quite something. My wife saw it, too. At first I thought it was her with one of the kids until I reached over and I realised that she was still in bed with me" - on seeing the ghosts of a woman and a child in his bedroom
The geniuses of music, like Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach) and Miles Davis, used silence beautifully; they were not about using as many notes as possible. They knew that playing almost nothing can be the most elegant and eloquent thing to do.
I'm so glad I have this way of expressing, in a veiled and artistic way, my most intimate feelings. A lot of people have the same feelings, but in others it must get bottled up. I'm proud of my being able to make it into artifacts that some people find beautiful or engaging.