Happy Birthday today (Oct. 2) to singer-songwriter, activist, actor & philanthropist Sting (Gordon Sumner), CBE, best known as the principal songwriter, lead singer & bassist for UK band, The Police (1983 UK & US #1 single Every Breath You Take plus four other UK chart toppers) & solo (1990 UK #15 single Englishman In New York plus over 15 other UK Top 40 singles); his musical style has incorporated elements of jazz, reggae, classical, new age & worldbeat; as a solo musician & member of The Police, Sting has won 16 Grammy Awards (receiving his first for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981), three Brit Awards (winning Best British Male in 1994), a Golden Globe, an Emmy Award & several Oscar nominations for Best Original Song; he has been inducted into both the R&R Hall of Fame & the Songwriters Hall of Fame; in 2011, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world; for several years, he has been working on a musical, The Last Ship, which tells of the demise of the shipbuilding industry in 1980s Newcastle (it will debut on Broadway in 2014); Stings 11th studio album, The Last Ship (2013) was inspired by the play…
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:10:15 +0000
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