# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sting
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:44:54.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sting"
name: "Sting"
slug: "sting"
description: "The bassist who wrote the riffs became more famous than the band—then left at the peak to prove he could do it again."
tagline: "British musician (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sting_in_April_2018.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-10-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           80.53
  momentum:             0.7318556509303205
  historical:           32.14248
  currentAttention:     23.35252081117454
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  100
  category: null
totalFollowers: 2450000
tags:
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    slug: "musicians"
  - name: "Actor"
    slug: "actor"
  - name: "Movies"
    slug: "movies"
  - name: "Singer-Songwriter"
    slug: "singer-songwriter"
  - name: "Classical"
    slug: "classical"
  - name: "Music Production"
    slug: "music-production"
  - name: "Music"
    slug: "music"
  - name: "United Kingdom"
    slug: "united-kingdom"
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/sting"
    handle:    "sting"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/theofficialsting/"
    handle:    "theofficialsting"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.sting.com/"
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/OfficialSting"
    handle:    "OfficialSting"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001776/"
    handle:    "nm0001776"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Ty63ceoRnnJKVEYP0VQpk"
    handle:    "0Ty63ceoRnnJKVEYP0VQpk"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwERP8ZAI10RtZIAPsZQDDw"
    handle:    "@theofficialsting"
    followers: 2450000
sources:
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Sting"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ستينغ (مغني)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "استینق"
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    title: "Stinq"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "স্টিং (সঙ্গীতজ্ঞ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sting (muzičar)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%B3%CE%BA"
    title: "Στινγκ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(musician)"
    title: "Sting (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting"
    title: "Sting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting"
    title: "Sting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting"
    title: "Sting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting"
    title: "Sting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "استینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sting"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sting"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sting"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sting_(musician)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sting"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born 2 October 1951 and took the name Sting into the Police, where he fronted, wrote, and played bass from 1977 to 1984. The band split when they were massive. He went solo in 1985 and pulled in jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat—genres the Police never touched. The combined record sales passed 100 million. Seventeen Grammys followed, plus three Brit Awards, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, four Oscar nominations, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. Queen Elizabeth II gave him a CBE; the Kennedy Center gave him honors; in May 2023 he was made an Ivor Novello Fellow. The through-line is range: he kept moving and the attention stayed.