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Born: March 20, 1959 City and Country of Origin: Wallsend, England Music Training: Awards: 1980 Grammy Best Rock Instrumental Performance, "Reggatta De Blanc;" 1981 Grammy Best Rock Instrumental Performance, "Behind My Camel;" 1981 Grammy Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, "Don't Stand So Close To Me;" 1983 Grammy Best Rock Instrumental Performance, "Brimstone And Treacle;" 1983 Grammy Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, "Synchronicity;" 1983 Grammy Song Of The Year/Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, "Every Breath You Take;" 1987 Grammy Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male/Best Music Video, Long Form, "Bring On The Night;" 1991 Grammy Best Rock Song, "Soul Cages;" 1993 Grammy Best Music Video-Long Form, "Ten Summoner's Tales;" 1993 Grammy Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male, "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You;" 1999 Grammy Best Male Pop Vocal Performance/Best Pop Album, "Brand New Day;" 2000 Grammy Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, "She Walks This Earth (Soberana Rosa);" 2003 Grammy Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals, "Whenever I Say Your Name" Top Recordings: "Synchronicity," "Every Breath You Take," "Soul Cages," "We'll Be Together," "They Dance Alone," "All This Time," "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You," and "Fields of Gold" Comments: Sting began his recording career with the group the Police. His work has a heavy jazz influence and his lyrics are profoundly literate. His debut album in 1985 The Dream of the Blue Turtles, on which he moved from bass to guitar, featured well-known jazz musicians Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland and Omar Hakim. Three singles from the album reached the American top ten "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free," "Love Is the Seventh Wave" and "Fortress Around Your Heart." The 1986 documentary Bring on the Night captured his earlier tour and accompanied the album of the same name. A brief reunion with the Police resulted in a hit single "Don't Stand So Close To Me." The hit singles "We'll Be Together" and "They Dance Alone" came out of his 1987 offering Nothing Like the Sun in which he once again collaborated with Branford Marsalis. He became an active campaigner for Amnesty International and Environmentalist groups. In 1998 he released Nothing like the Sun, Nada Como el Sol. After a starring appearance in the failed Broadway revival of The Threepenny Opera in 1989, he released the deep dark album The Soul Cages in 1991 out of which came the single "All This Time." The pop oriented Ten Summoner's Tales delivered 2 more hits two years later "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" and "Fields of Gold." He hit the top of the charts in '93 along with Rod Stewart and Bryan Adams for "All for Love," from the movie The Three Musketeers. Mercury Falling in the spring of 1996 debuted high on the charts but quickly fell off without producing a single hit song. |
 
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