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Sting

Age: 58
Height: 6' 0"

Birth Place: Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
Born: Oct. 2nd, 1951

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Sting's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
AL-TV	Sting
The South Bank Show (UK)	Sting
Top of The Pops 2 (UK)	Sting
Aspel & Company (UK)	Sting
Cheggers Plays Pop (UK)	Sting
The Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer (UK)	Sting

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

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 gave a name to his bass (Brian). Along with his wife Trudie Styler and a Brazilian Indian, he started the Rainforest Foundation in 1989 to help save the rainforests.

TRIVIA:

He is an avid Newcastle United supporter.
The comic book character of John Constantine (Hellblazer), eventually featured in the Keanu Reeves movie, was designed to look like Sting, and, in fact, was created solely for the purpose of including a character who looks like Sting in the Swamp Thing comic. In one Swamp Thing issue, there's a boat called the USS Gordon Sumner.
Winner of the 1994 Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist.
Sting appeared in Threepenny Opera in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s.
Attended Warwick University in Coventry, England but never graduated.
Is a big fan of "Richard Laymer, the Copy Guy," a popular character created by 'Rob Schneider (I)' (qv) for _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv). Sting was the first SNL host/musical guest to appear in a "Copy Guy" sketch; he later wrote the cast and crew a letter from "Sting. The Stingster. Der Stinglehoffer. Sting-a-ling-a-ding-dong. Sting-o. The Stingman."
Album "Nothing Like the Sun" is dedicated to his mother, Audrey.
Got his nickname "Sting" from the black and gold rugby shirts he used to wear, which made him look like a hornet.