sting (musician)

 

  • [54] 1998–2005: Brand New Day and soundtrack work[edit] Sting on stage in Budapest in January 2000 A period of relative musical inactivity followed from 1997, before Sting
    eventually re-emerged in September 1999, with a new album Brand New Day, which gave him two more UK Top 20 hits in the title track “Brand New Day” (a UK No.

  • Hit singles on the album include “Fields of Gold”, a song inspired by the barley fields next to his Wiltshire home, with the music video featuring a silhouette of Sting walking
    through a village containing common features seen throughout the UK during that time such as a red telephone box and “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You”, the latter earning his second award for best male pop singer at the 36th Grammy Awards.

  • On 9 November 2016, Sting performed two shows at Irving Plaza, in Manhattan, New York City, playing songs from 57th & 9th for the first time live in concert: a “57th & 9th
    iHeartRadio Album Release Party” show and a Sting Fan Club Member Exclusive Show later that night.

  • [63] As promotion of this album, he appeared on the fifth episode of Studio 60 to perform a segment of Dowland’s “Come Again” as well as his own “Fields of Gold” in arrangement
    for voice and two archlutes.

  • Sting made an appearance in the music video, the song being part of the new album from Swedish House Mafia titled “Paradise Again”.

  • In September 1985, he performed “If You Love Somebody Set Them Free” at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in New York.

  • [30] Four of the band’s five studio albums appeared on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and two of the band’s songs, “Every Breath You Take” and
    “Roxanne”, each written by Sting, appeared on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

  • It included the hit singles “If You Love Somebody Set Them Free” (backed with the non-LP song “Another Day”), “Fortress Around Your Heart”, “Love Is the Seventh Wave” and
    “Russians”, the latter of which was based on a theme from the Lieutenant Kijé Suite.

  • [6] With the Police, Sting became one of the world’s best-selling music artists.

  • [35] In September 1981, Sting made his first live solo appearance, on all four nights of the fourth Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball in London’s
    Drury Lane theatre at the invitation of producer Martin Lewis.

  • [44] Sting and Bono at the Conspiracy of Hope concert in New Jersey, 1986 Sting released …Nothing Like the Sun in 1987, including singles, “We’ll Be Together”, “Fragile”,
    “Englishman in New York” and “Be Still My Beating Heart”, dedicated to his mother, who had recently died.

  • [43] The 1985 film Bring On the Night, directed by Michael Apted, documented the formation of his solo band and its first concert in France.

  • “[126] Following the example set at the 1979 show by Pete Townshend, Sting performed “Roxanne” and “Message in a Bottle” appearing on all four nights at Theatre Royal in London.

  • The song “I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying” from this album also became a US country music hit in 1997 in a version with Toby Keith.

  • The album features 14 studio (and one live) re-recorded versions of his songs released throughout his solo career and his time with the Police.

  • In 1987, jazz arranger Gil Evans placed him in a big band setting for a live album of Sting’s songs, and on Frank Zappa’s 1988 Broadway the Hard Way he performed an arrangement
    of “Murder by Numbers”, set to “Stolen Moments” by Oliver Nelson and dedicated to evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

  • [60] Sting went on the Broken Music tour, touring smaller venues, with a four-piece band, starting in Los Angeles on 28 March 2005 and ending on 14 May 2005.

  • The title is a reference to the New York City intersection he crossed every day to get to the studio where much of the album was recorded.

  • The final single used to promote the film, “My Funny Friend and Me”, was Sting’s first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Song.

  • [95] 2016–2020: 57th & 9th, 44/876 and My Songs[edit] On 18 July 2016, Sting’s first rock album in many years was announced.

  • [117][118] On November 20, 2021, Sting’s single “What Could Have Been”, with Ray Chen, was featured in the third act of the League of Legends animated series Arcane; this
    single was released the same day.

  • [10] He has collaborated with other musicians on songs such as “Money for Nothing” with Dire Straits, “Rise & Fall” with Craig David, “All for Love” with Bryan Adams and Rod
    Stewart, “You Will Be My Ain True Love” with Alison Krauss, and introduced the North African music genre raï to Western audiences through the hit song “Desert Rose” with Cheb Mami.

  • It included their most successful song, “Every Breath You Take”, written by Sting.

  • They decided to go ahead and the album and DVD appeared in November as …All This Time, dedicated “to all those who lost their lives on that day”.

  • [81][82][83] Sting’s eleventh studio album, titled The Last Ship and inspired by the play, was released on 24 September 2013.

  • [68] In 2009, Sting appeared at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concert, playing “Higher Ground” and “Roxanne” with Stevie Wonder and “People Get Ready” with
    Jeff Beck.

  • [65] Sting entered the studio in early February 2009 to begin work on a new album, If on a Winter’s Night…,[66] released in October 2009.

  • —BMI President Mike O’Neill in May 2019 on “Every Breath You Take” becoming the most played song in US radio history.

  • [104] For the first time in 22 years, BMI has a new top song in our repertoire with Sting’s timeless hit “Every Breath You Take,” a remarkable achievement that solidifies
    its place in songwriting history.

  • On 11 February 2007, he reunited with Police to open the 2007 Grammy Awards, singing “Roxanne”, and announced The Police Reunion Tour, the first concert of which was in Vancouver
    on 28 May 2007 for 22,000 fans.

  • [116] However, several titles as “Simple” in performance with Ricky Martin, “Message in a Bottle” with All Saints, “Spirits” with Pato Banton from the film Ace Ventura: When
    Nature Calls and “Always on Your Side” in duet with Sheryl Crow, are not included in the album.

  • In 2019, he received a BMI Award for “Every Breath You Take” becoming the most-played song in radio history.

  • [86] Sting and Paul Simon on stage at the O2 Arena in London, April 2015 In February 2014, Sting embarked on a joint concert tour titled On Stage Together with Paul Simon,
    playing 21 concerts in North America.

  • [119][120] Sting then opened The Game Awards 2021 with the song;[121] Todd Marten, for the Los Angeles Times, wrote “The Game Awards began this year with an opening that might
    have launched the Grammy Awards”.

  • He also sang backing vocals on Arcadia’s single “The Promise”, on two songs from Phil Collins’ album No Jacket Required, and contributed “Mack the Knife” to the Hal Willner-produced
    tribute album Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill.

  • He also led an all-star band (dubbed “the Secret Police”) on his own arrangement of Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released”.

  • In November 1984, he joined Band Aid, a charity supergroup primarily made up of the biggest British and Irish musicians of the era, and sang on “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”

  • [4] As a solo musician and a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards: he won Song of the Year for “Every Breath You Take”, three Brit Awards, including Best
    British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution in 2002, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

  • He performed “Come Down in Time” for the album, which also features other popular artists and their renditions of John/Taupin songs.

  • [94] In 2016, Sting performed a 19-date joint concert summer tour of North America with Peter Gabriel.

  • In the same year, his performance with the Brazilian composer/artist Tom Jobim in “How Insensitive” was in the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization.

  • In 2000, he won Grammy Awards for Brand New Day and the song of the same name.

  • [38] In November 1984, Sting was part of Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?

  • “Be Still My Beating Heart” earned nominations for Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

  • [113] On 14 April 2020, Sting recorded a duet cover of “Message in a Bottle” with the girl group All Saints.

  • It was preceded by the release of the lead single “If It’s Love” on 1 September 2021.

  • [102] The Police’s former guitar player, French native Henry Padovani, joined the band on stage for “Next to You”, one of the encores.

  • [92] It is a cover from Sting’s 2003 seventh solo studio album Sacred Love and will serve as the first single from Farmer’s tenth studio album, Interstellaires.

  • [47] 1990–1997: Greater solo success[edit] His 1991 album, The Soul Cages, was dedicated to his late father.

  • [105] On 7 February 2018, Sting performed as special guest at the Italian Sanremo Music Festival, singing “Muoio per te”, the Italian version of “Mad About You”, the lyrics
    of which were written by his friend and colleague Zucchero Fornaciari and “Don’t Make Me Wait” with Shaggy.

  • [24] Musical career 1977–1984: The Police and early solo work[edit] Main article: The Police In January 1977, Sting moved from Newcastle to London and joined Stewart Copeland
    and Henry Padovani (soon replaced by Andy Summers) to form the Police.

  • [108][109] In support of the album, a world tour named the My Songs Tour started on 28 May 2019 at La Seine Musicale in Paris and ended on 2 September 2019 at Kit Carson Park
    in Taos, New Mexico.

  • In 1982 he released a solo single, “Spread a Little Happiness” from the film of the Dennis Potter television play Brimstone and Treacle.

  • In 2004, he was nominated for the third time for an Academy Award for Best Song,[50] for “You Will Be My Ain True Love”, from Cold Mountain, sung in duet with Alison Krauss.

  • [93] On its release, the song went straight to number 1 over French iTunes music download charts, subsequently hitting number 1 on the main French singles chart and giving
    Sting his first number 1 in France.

  • He reached the UK Top 40 with two further singles the same year with “You Still Touch Me” (#27 in June) and “I Was Brought To My Senses” (#31 in December).

  • The album also included an Italian version of Mad About You.

  • [42] On 2 July 2005, Sting performed at the Live 8 concert at Hyde Park, London, the follow-up to 1985’s Live Aid.

  • [52] Also in 1996, he sang for the Tina Turner single “On Silent Wings” as a part of her Wildest Dreams album.

  • [76] On 26 April he performed “Every Breath You Take”, “Roxanne” and “Desert Rose” at the Time 100 Gala in New York City.

  • 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.

  • [114] The same year, he appeared on the song “Simple” available on the EP Pausa by Ricky Martin.

  • [100][101] Sting (left) performing with Shaggy at the 2018 Capitals playoff concert On 4 November 2016, management of the Bataclan theatre announced that Sting would perform
    an exclusive concert in Paris on 12 November 2016 for the re-opening of the Bataclan, a year after the terrorist attack at the venue.

  • [124] Activism Sting’s involvement in human rights began in September 1981, when Martin Lewis included him in the fourth Amnesty International gala, The Secret Policeman’s
    Other Ball, a benefit show co-founded by Monty Python member John Cleese.

  • That year, he sang with Vanessa Williams on “Sister Moon” and appeared on her album The Sweetest Days.

  • [45] The album won Best British Album at the 1988 Brit Awards and in 1989 received three Grammy nominations including his second consecutive nomination for Album of the Year.

  • In 2011, Time magazine named Sting one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

  • On 4 September 1997, Sting performed “I’ll Be Missing You” with Puff Daddy at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards in tribute to Notorious B.I.G.

  • In 2000, the soundtrack for The Emperor’s New Groove was released with complete songs from the previous version of the film.

  • [50] In May 1993, he covered his own Police song from the Ghost in the Machine album, “Demolition Man”, for the Demolition Man film.

  • [39] Released in June 1985, Sting sang the line “I Want My MTV” on “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits.

  • [122] In February 2022, it was announced that Universal Music Group purchased Sting’s catalogue of solo works and those with The Police for an undisclosed amount.

  • [61] In 1984, Sting sang a re-worded version of “Every Breath You Take”, titled “Every Bomb You Make” for episode 12 of the first series of the British satirical puppet show
    Spitting Image.

  • [32] They were also included in Rolling Stone’s and VH1’s lists of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”.

  • [31] In addition, “Every Breath You Take” and “Roxanne” were among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

  • The CD and DVD were to be entitled On Such a Night and intended to feature re-workings of Sting favourites such as “Roxanne” and “If You Love Somebody Set Them Free”.

 

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