Sting

About Sting

Sting, or rather Gordon Matthew Sumner, born 2 October 1951 in Wallsend is a British musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was the frontman, songwriter and bass guitarist of the group The Police. The band released five studio albums, won six Grammy and two Brit awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. Sting is a seventeen-time Grammy Award winner, four-time Brit Awards winner, Golden Globe holder with countless other accolades. He has sold nearly 100 million albums of The Police and solo albums, making him one of the world's best-selling music artists. He has collaborated many times with other artists, mixing their styles with his rock sound. The album Duets, features a compilation of his most famous songs recorded with other singers including Mary J. Blige, Herbie Hancock, Eric Clapton, Annie Lennox, Charles Aznavour, Mylène Farmer, Shaggy, Melody Gardot, Gashi and others. He recorded a collaborative album with Shaggy in 2019, which spent more than 20 weeks at the top of Billboard's Reggae Album chart in the US, was certified Gold in Poland and France, and received a Grammy for Best Reggae Album.