Born Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner in Wallsend in north-east England on 2 October 1951; Sting is a singer and songwriter. In 1977 he moved to London and became the frontman of The Police; his first solo album, “The Dream of the Blue Turtles”, appeared in June 1985. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2014 and the Polar Music Prize in 2017; he is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. On the gala recording Doc Heilein and Friends Gala 2023 – Ich will keine Schokolade (2023) Anna Dorothea Mutterer and Timo Böcking perform his song “Fragile” from the album “…Nothing Like the Sun” (1987), inspired by the death of the American Ben Linder, who was killed by the Contras in Nicaragua.
Sting
Composer
