Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951) is an English musician and actor better known as Sting. From 1977 through 1986, he was the vocalist, composer, and bassist for the new wave rock band the Police. He began his solo career in 1985, and his music incorporates elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat.
Sting has received 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 got a BMI Award in 2019 for “Every Breath You Take,” which became the most-played song in radio history. Sting was elected 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. He won a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording in 2000. Sting was awarded a CBE by Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in 2003 for his contributions to music. In 2014, he was named a Kennedy Center Honoree by the White House, and in 2017, he received the Polar Music Prize.
