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Birth Name: Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner

Age: 74, born 2 October 1951

Country of origin: United Kingdom

Height: 6' 0"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Trudie Styler

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Homer and the Simpsons Band (57 items)
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Published 16 years, 7 months ago

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A Change of Names (77 items)
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The Greatest Guest Appearances on The Simpsons (200 items)
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One more list to show U.K. is really a Kingdom. (58 items)
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Portraits by Maurizio Galimberti (19 items)
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Emily Howard from Little Britain with Sting

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Sting - Englishman In New York

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Sting - They Dance Alone

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Description: Born Gordon Matthew Sumner in Wallsend, Northumberland. His mother was Audrey, and his father was Ernest. He received his name Sting from his striped sweater in which Gordon Solomon said that he looked like a bee. Primarily a musician, he worked in the band The Police until 1984, when he went solo. Before his music career he was a ditch digger, a schoolteacher who taught English and a soccer coach. He received an honorary Doctorate of Music degree from Northumbria University in October 1992, and from Berklee College of Music in May 1994. He plays guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, piano, harmonica, saxophone and pan-flute, and he ... (more)

Tags: Singer (20), British (13), Pop (13), The Police (10), Musician (10), Rock (9), Born 1951 (7), Songwriter (6), 90s (5), 80s (5), Actor (4), Worldbeat (3), Handsome (3), Male (3), English (3), Born In October (3), I Would Do Him (2), Solo (2), European (2)

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1. Broken Music - A Memoir

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2. Lyrics (2007)

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Celebrity Buddhists (34 person items)

"Sting has incorporated some aspects of vegetarianism into his diet, but is not a vegetarian in any regular use of the term. He follows Vajrayana Buddhism."

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People I find Inspiring (108 person items)

"You can't have Stewart Copeland without having Sting also. More than anyone else, Sting inspired me to take my bass guitar again and have a real jam. His early work with The Police especially is awe-inspiring at best and should be studied by any aspiring musician. As a bass player Sting is no joke. "