Biography of Sting Singer

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Former member of The Police. In the year, The Rolling Store musical publication placed Sting in the top of the best bassists in history 32. In the photo: Sting Gordon Sumner Sting Music took possession of millions of people and made it possible to understand how multifaceted and unbridled the talent of a person who follows his purpose. Much has been written and told about his work, acting path, philanthropy, spiritual searches and personal life.

We tried in this biographical narrative to collect the most important facts from the life of a living legend. The boy’s father worked as a locksmith at a machine -building factory, his mother created hairstyles a few clients, then retrained to the nurse. Sting as a child was 18 when Gordon was born, her first child. Soon, almost one after another, the boy appeared the younger brother Phil and two sisters - Angela and Anita, so the children's cries were the constant companions of Gordon.

Audrey could not combine work with raising four children, the father of about 8 pounds a week became the only breadwinner of the family. They did not poverted, but there was enough money only for modest food and clothes that the children bred behind the elders. Due to material problems, the spouses constantly quarreled, sometimes it came to fights. Once there was a prosperous shipyard, but after the end of World War II and the fall in demand for ships, a crisis came.

Little Gordon Sumner in the photo with the aunt of the window of the Samner house went to the embankment. The giant hulls of broken ships covered the sun to the whole area. Disgusting ecology, wretched houses, drunken regulars of taverns - this is what surrounded Sting all childhood and youth. The main children's impression of the boy was the colors: the main colors of my childhood are black and gray.

Black is the color of coal that was mined in my hometown. And gray is the color of the sea, which remained so even in clear weather. For nothing in the world I would not want to return to that past. From the earliest years, Gordon had to attend a local Catholic school, which was distinguished by rigid methods of education. The Jesuit community, to which Sumner belonged, practiced bodily punishment of children.

The boy experienced this “education” system in full. Not differing in a meek disposition and diligence, Gordon was subjected to executions much more often than the rest of the students. Until now, no one was able to block the peculiar “record” of the school: during one school year, the future Sting stoic has stooped to flog over fifty times. So now there is a house in which Sting's childhood passed according to the memoirs of Sting, the only children's joys in the town were days when a new ship built on the sea surface solemnly lowered to the sea surface.

Residents dressed up and gathered in the square where musicians invited to the holiday played. These people seemed to Little Gordon the celestials giving joy and fun, living in some other, unknown to him a dimension. When at the age of ten he received a guitar from his uncle as a gift, the boy had no limit. He immediately began to master it on his own, in addition to the game on the piano, which seemed an alien from another world in their shabby living room first played Audrey on it, and very good, but threw music classes.

Sting in his youth, seeing the eldest son’s desire for music, then wrote him to the music teacher, who took 10 shillings for the lesson, which was a rather big amount for those times and for their family, their prosperity. However, the teacher soon refused to class, saying that Gordon was not teaching. The whole thing was that the boy wanted to play his songs, not academic sketches.

The music teacher recognized Gordon to be unsuccessful. Как же он был неправ Параллельно с этим Гордон успевал помогать отцу, который переквалифицировался в молочники, стал чемпионом школы в беге на стометровку, был звездой футбольной команды и систематически подвергался экзекуциям за драки с одноклассниками, которые дразнили его Ларчем персонаж из «Семейки Адамс» из-за высокого роста.

Gordon, who perceived the mockery to his heart, closed and moved away from his peers, preferring the books of the Games to football, where a narrow lane served as a field, and throwing stones into girls. Sting was a closed teenager, who loved books of interest in books in Gordon was awakened by a grandmother, whom he called the only cultural member of the family.

At the age of five, at her request, he read the Treasure Island. The adventures of Jim Hokins forced the boy to distract from the surrounding reality, and he began to read with binge. As a result, he grew up with a dreamy guy, at school he studied mediocre, but was very good in English and literature. The Police why Gordon Samner got into his head to enter the pedagogical college, he himself cannot explain now.Further searches for a suitable profession did not bring satisfaction, although he had to be both an English teacher, a road worker, and a tax inspector, and a music teacher in a private order.

For some time, Sting was a school teacher in a photo in the upper row in the evenings, putting off the proven notebooks, he went to rehearse a local big band and honestly thought that he had such a hobby. At the weekend, the ensemble performed in a large dance hall, and there once Gordon in his spacious sweater in his spacious black and yellow strip, noted Stuart Copland, known in narrow circles, the drummer, just creating a new group.

According to one version, he suggested Samner not only to conquer the whole world, but also by the new stage pseudonym Sting. Allegedly, it was precisely because of the sweater reminiscent of the bee, the future rock star received her famous pseudonym. Almost a mask that you wear as an artist, a public person. This is not quite you. This protects you to a certain extent, ”said Sting in an exclusive interview with Vladimir Pozner.

Sting at Pozner, nevertheless, when he appeared with this name on the stage, Gordon had to literally redeem him, since there was already a famous person with the same pseudonym - Westler Steve Borden. The athlete agreed to a profitable deal and sold all the “rights” to the right to “sting” to the musician, whom the whole world now knows under this name. The Police. The beginning of the year, soon the guitarist Henry Padovani and the Trio The Police, whose birth year is considered, and the place of the Punk rock London, began the performance, the beginning of the performance, the beginning of the performance.

Later, the guitarist Andy Summer joined them. Their work could not be attributed to a certain genre: regions-models, synth-pop, pop rock and Soul were also mixed to the Pankovsky sound, and a strong lyrics were also distinguished by the composition. At the beginning of his career, young Sting managed to earn a living at the very beginning with great difficulty, when the first two single -single Fall Out and Roxanne appeared the latter simply forbidden to perform, because the song was about a prostitute.

The case helped the promotion of The Police - the manufacturer of chewing gum Vrili invited the guys to take part in the filming of advertising with the condition that they would whiten their hair - in the tone of the snow -white smile, which is facilitated by chewing gum. Those agreed, and in the future the blond hair became one of the visiting cards of the group.

The Police - Roxanne things went uphill. After filming in the advertisement, I saw the debut album of the group Outlandos D, Amour, which reached the sixth place in music charts, despite the more than modest recording conditions. In the year, the Roxanne song was heard by the producer Miles Copland. If in the year the radio stations ignored it, then on the second attempt the song made a splash.

Invisible Sun single from the last of the named album was dedicated to the Belfast hunger strike of the political prisoners and touched on the problem of political repression in principle. The topical song was prohibited from broadcasting on BBC. The creation of Stenga prompted a divorce from his wife, Francis Tomelti to create a song. His popularity was facilitated by the roles in the films "Quadrofenia", "Radio on", the position of the vocalist that a priori implies the center of attention and shocking behavior.

For example, during a tour in Australia, where The Police was very fond of, Sting Nahamil to an too persistent customs officer, advising him to put things from a suitcase in the ass. For this, he had to sit in a prison cell until the producer rescued him. In the era of The Police, Sting was known as a rowdy and scandalist Gordon, he got involved in a fight with the paparazzi, then disappeared a month or two later, he either had a rest in a yamaika or was treated with drug addiction, he was seen at the millionaire’s party with a dubious past, then caught a betrayal of his wife.

In one interview, Sting admitted in a weekly tone that in his life there was a period when he constantly had group sex. At the same time, he was known as an intellectual and could quote the works of the Fathers of Philosophy from memory, especially Karl Jung loved. Blue turtles and a solo career precisely the hobby of Jung's labors indirectly led Sting to leave The Police and solo careers.

Once, when he sunbathed on the beaches of Barbados, he had a dream in which four hypertrophied blue turtles broke into the musician’s garden and arranged a brawl, destroying everything they managed to touch. And Sting himself in a dream ran nearby, rejoiced and helped destruction. Having woke up, Sting realized that, firstly, this is almost the first dream that he remembered in such detail, and secondly, that the blue turtles are a manifestation of his dark side, which, according to Jung's concept, has any artist.

It was clear to me that the dark side of the personality has a huge creative potential. But he goes hand in hand with destructive potential. Turtles told me that it was necessary to direct your “demons” in the right direction. Destroy not myself than I did before, but all my work, and start from scratch.So in the year, Sting left at the peak of popularity from The Police, hired little -known jazz musicians and recorded the debut solo album of The Dream of the Blue Turtles “Sleep of Blue Turtles”, simultaneously submitting to a divorce from his wife, whom he no longer wanted to deceive.

True, he had to endure unpleasant minutes of explanation with the group comrades, and then go to a large farewell tour with them. The cover of the debut solo album of Sting The Dream of the Blue Turtles, which included the famous song about Russia, the Cold War and the Fear of Nuclear War, with the melody from the "Romance" by Sergei Prokofiev, became platinum. The song of Russian Sting was inspired by Soviet children's programs.

In those years, there was a stereotype in Britain that Russians do not like children. Once, a friend of Sting, a scientist who could intercept the signals of Soviet satellites, invited the musician to watch Soviet television. It was morning, and children's programs were broadcast. The singer did not remember their names, but he was shocked by the atmosphere of care and love.

We love our children, and therefore we will not destroy the world, ”he said in an interview with Vladimir Pozner. STING-Russians Next album Nothing Like the Sun, whose name Sting inspired Stanfa from the Shakespearean sonnet, won the peaks of world charts in the world. Sting recorded it with Eric Clapton and Mark Nopfler. Starting with this record, the musician in his work reflected all the problems that disturb him in the modern world.

The songs turned into dedications to musicians who passed away, dramatic events in America and Chile and in the life of the singer himself. It was during this period that he began to be called a legend. It was then that he received the Order of the British Empire for an outstanding contribution to art and many other awards. Sting in his youth and now at the end of the year Sting arrived with four grandiose concerts to Russia.

Spectators of Yekaterinburg, Kazan Moscow and St. Petersburg enthusiastically accepted the musical super show of Sting and Shegg, who composed the company to the older friend in his round in Russia. In Sting and Shaggi held a joint tour of the acting career in the curious and restless Sting not only one of the most popular world musicians, but quite successfully declared himself as an actor.

In the year, he made his debut in a big movie, playing the leader of the Modes gang named Ace in the film “Quadrofenia” - youth drama with a soundtrack from the songs of The Who. In the same year, he appeared in the existential detective "Radio On".