Sting

Sting is the English musician and songwriter Gordon Sumner, born in Wallsend, north-east England, on 2 October 1951 and re-christened by a bandleader in the Phoenix Jazzmen. As lead singer, bass player and primary songwriter of the Police he wrote "Roxanne" and "Every Breath You Take", and from 1978 to 1983 the band had five UK chart-topping albums. He began a solo career in 1985, drawing on rock, jazz, reggae, classical and worldbeat from The Dream of the Blue Turtles to The Bridge in 2021, and has received 17 Grammy Awards and sold a combined total of more than 100 million records. In March 2024 he announced the STING 3.0 tour, a three-piece with guitarist Dominic Miller and drummer Chris Maas, playing multiple-night stints in theatres across North America.