The musician, who also worked as a conductor, gave a concert at Herod’s Odeon in Athens hours before his birthday.
Gordon Sumner is celebrating his 70th birthday today, hours after conquering the audience at Herod Atticus’ Odeon, part of the Acropolis in Athens. On Friday night, he performed one of his two concerts of the year, with the next dates set for 2022. With his world tour, Zhiloto popularized his album “The bridge”. He performed at the Odeon twice – in 1996 and 2018.
On this majestic stage there were concerts of big names of different genres – Maria Callas, Frank Sinatra, Placido Domingo, Diana Ross, “Jethro Tull”, Bregovic and others.
Sting is clearly aware that pandemic times are difficult, and sales are important for the income of any artist, whose work is still very much related to how generous the muse is, and not at all easy. Therefore, as a person who knows the taste of time, he tries to maintain the interest of his fans. Currently, in his social profiles, a raffle is being played for those who order his new album online. The names of two winners who will be able to attend his private acoustic concert in Paris on October 4 will be drawn.
Sting was born on October 2, 1951 in Wallsend, Northumberland, as the eldest of four sons of Audrey and Ernest Sumner. His father was an engineer, but later opened a dairy, and his mother a hairdresser and nurse. Gordon helped his father with the milk supply, and at the age of 10 he was obsessed with the guitar given to him by their friendly family, who emigrated.
After graduating in 1969, he enrolled at Warwick University in Coventry, but left after the first semester.
He was a bus conductor, construction worker and tax clerk for a time, then enrolled at Northumbrian University from 1971 to 1974 and qualified as an English teacher. He taught at St. Paul’s School in Cramlington for two years.
He plays jazz with Phoenix Jazzmen and Last Exit in the evenings and on weekends.
Then he got his nickname because of the black and gold striped sweater, which made him look like a hornet, according to Phoenix Jazzmen leader Gordon Solomon.
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The Police
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He started his career as a bassist and vocalist of the influential band “The Police”. In fact, his favorite music is jazz. They were together with “The Police” until 1984, although they never officially separated.
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Drummer Stuart Kopeland and guitarist Andy Summers are joking with their colleagues from The Police, the year is 1979.
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Sting has 15 solo albums, 18 Grammy Awards in 35 nominations, a total of 47 music awards, 18 films as an actor and 21 in which he plays himself, and his life’s well-being can be reported – he has 7 grandchildren.
The sum of his solo and those with The Police sales is 100 million copies.
Sting has six children, two of his first wife, Francis Tomalty-Joseph and Fushia, and four of his current Trudy Styres – Mickey, Jake, Elliott and Giacomo.
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With his wife Trudy, who starred in an episode of “Friends” almost like himself
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“My kids call me Sting, my mom calls me Sting, who’s Gordon ?!“he replied to a journalist who addressed him as ‘Gordon.’
Famous wrestler Steve Borden also uses the nickname Sting. Interestingly, in the past he owned the rights to this nickname, but Sumner bought them.
Sting earns $ 2,000 a day from “Every Breath You Take”, which they created with “The Police” and is now 20 years old because it is the most ordered on the radio of all time.
He wrote it when he woke up in the middle of the night.
“This may not be the only pandemic, there may be others. We have climate change, we have existential problems that we all need to solve as a global society, not just as individual countries. I am very worried about politics at the moment – they seem to be limited when they need to be broad-minded. We are in chaos, but we have an opportunity – a small window of opportunity to make a change. We need political will, so our voice is very important“, says Sting on the occasion of the latest world events.
He maintains his good shape for the years by running 8 miles a day, practicing yoga and doing aerobics.
Sting is a very good wine producer, its elixirs are highly valued by the world’s leading experts.
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