Sting

Sting, the stage name of Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, is a British singer and songwriter born in Wallsend, in the north-east of England, in 1951. In late 1976 he formed The Police in London with Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, the trio behind ‘Roxanne’, ‘Message in a Bottle’ and ‘Every Breath You Take’, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. He made his solo debut in 1985 with The Dream of the Blue Turtles and went on to write songs such as ‘Englishman in New York’ (1987) and ‘Brand New Day’ (1999). He has won seventeen Grammy Awards across both stages of his career.

Sting appears in the line-ups of 3 festivals in ModoFestival's calendar.