Sting

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, known as Sting, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. From 1977 through 1984, he was the vocalist, composer, and bassist for the Police, a new wave rock band. He began his solo career in 1985, and his music incorporates rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat influences.

Sting has won 17 Grammy Awards as a solo artist and as a member of the Police, including 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 Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song. He won a BMI Award in 2019 for "Every Breath You Take," which became the most-played song in radio history. Sting was admitted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and awarded the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors in 2002. As a member of the Police, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. For recording, he won a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2000. Sting got a CBE for services to music from Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in 2003. In 2014, he was named a Kennedy Center Honoree by the White House, and in 2017, he received the Polar Music Prize.

Born: October 2, 1951, Wallsend, United Kingdom