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Sting (born Gordon Matthew Sumner on October 2, 1951) is an English musician from Newcastle upon Tyne. Prior to a distinguished solo career, he was the lead singer, principal composer and bassist of the 1970s/1980s rock band The Police.
Biography
Sumner was born in Wallsend, near Newcastle upon Tyne in northeast England, to Audrey Cowell and her husband, Ernest Sumner. He is the eldest of four children and has a brother, Philip, and two sisters, Angela and Anita. His father managed a dairy, and as a boy Sumner would often assist him with the early morning milk delivery rounds. Sumner was raised in the Roman Catholic tradition, due to the influence of his paternal grandmother, who was from an Irish family.
Sumner attended St. Cuthbert’s Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne, and then the University of Warwick, but did not graduate. During this time, he would often sneak into nightclubs like the Club-A-Go-Go. Here he would watch acts like Jack Bruce and Jimi Hendrix who would later influence his music. After jobs as a bus conductor, a construction labourer, and a tax officer, he attended Northern Counties Teachers’ Training College, which later became part of Northumbria University, from 1971 to 1974. He then worked as a teacher at St. Paul’s First School in Cramlington for two years.
From an early age, Gordon Sumner knew that he wanted to be a musician. His first music gigs were wherever he could get a job, performing evenings, weekends, and during vacations from college and teaching. He played with local jazz bands such as the Phoenix Jazzmen, the Newcastle Big Band, and Last Exit.
Biography
Sumner was born in Wallsend, near Newcastle upon Tyne in northeast England, to Audrey Cowell and her husband, Ernest Sumner. He is the eldest of four children and has a brother, Philip, and two sisters, Angela and Anita. His father managed a dairy, and as a boy Sumner would often assist him with the early morning milk delivery rounds. Sumner was raised in the Roman Catholic tradition, due to the influence of his paternal grandmother, who was from an Irish family.
Sumner attended St. Cuthbert’s Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne, and then the University of Warwick, but did not graduate. During this time, he would often sneak into nightclubs like the Club-A-Go-Go. Here he would watch acts like Jack Bruce and Jimi Hendrix who would later influence his music. After jobs as a bus conductor, a construction labourer, and a tax officer, he attended Northern Counties Teachers’ Training College, which later became part of Northumbria University, from 1971 to 1974. He then worked as a teacher at St. Paul’s First School in Cramlington for two years.
From an early age, Gordon Sumner knew that he wanted to be a musician. His first music gigs were wherever he could get a job, performing evenings, weekends, and during vacations from college and teaching. He played with local jazz bands such as the Phoenix Jazzmen, the Newcastle Big Band, and Last Exit.
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Brand New Day
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...All This Time
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If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
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There Is No Rose Of Such Virtue
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Shoutbox
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loadminik88 wrote:
saw this christmas show yesterday on tv. it was awesome =)
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Nerwende wrote:
The new album could easily be the best "Christmas album" of all time.
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alariss wrote:
this album... yeah, you can feel the winter. you just want to fall asleep and never wake up... to dream about sun. beautiful music
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furio78 wrote:
"A beautiful winter album. The music makes you feel the winter where all sound goes beyond hearing range and comes from a distance." ---> Great words
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Raxc5 wrote:
of course it's boring, you haven't grown up listening to sting.
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szelf13 wrote:
Last album is so bornig and lazy.... !!!!!!!! Nothing special....
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soviet_airspace wrote:
A beautiful winter album. The music makes you feel the winter where all sound goes beyond hearing range and comes from a distance.
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twupack wrote:
Great artist... great human
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san_music_fan wrote:
А вообще любимая "King of pain" =)
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SLIM-74 wrote:
http://www.lastfm.it/group/HASTA+LA+VICTORIA+SIEMPRE...../
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Szela10 wrote:
His new album suck soo much... Sting, why?
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dumspirospero24 wrote:
Soul cake)! joy)))
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MrPsychedelia wrote:
Jego świąteczna płyta jest najnudniejszą jaka w życiu słyszałem.
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Andre--W wrote:
Never Coming Home великолепный трек))
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edallanhawryliw wrote:
Come back to T.O. Canada like the old days
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san_music_fan wrote:
Soul cake
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photon_man62 wrote:
Soul cake is very, very bad. Gabriel's Message would have been a better single.
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fire___ wrote:
Come to POLAND!!
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Messeh wrote:
Desert Rose is beautiful.
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WNYC's The Greene Space, Classical 105.9 WQXR, Opus Arte and Music Unites welcome Sting and Trudie Styler for an Exclusive Presentation of the New York Premiere Screening of Twin Spirits at The Jerome L. …
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