Sting

Sting married Frances Tomelty, an Irish actress on May 1, 1976. They had two children together and the couple divorced in the year 1984.

In 1982, Sting separated from his first wife and started living with actress and film producer, Trudie Styler. They married on August 22, 1992 in south-west England and have four children.

In 1989, Sting founded The Rainforest Foundation International in association with his wife Trudie Styler and Jean-Pierre Dutilleux. The foundation in association with its sister organizations has funded the projects that have protected a total of 28 million acres of forest in 20 different rainforest countries.

Sting was born on 2 October 1951, in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, as eldest of four sons of Audrey and Ernest Matthew Sumner. His father was an engineer who later opened a dairy shop and his mother was a hair dresser

He was inspired to have a glamorous life after being waved at by the Queen mother from her Rolls-Royce and around the same time, his obsession with guitar started when he got one from one of the family friends.

He graduated from Northumbria University and soon after college, he started working as a teacher at Cramlington, England's St. Paul's School and taught there for two years before turning into a full-time musician

During his time as a teacher at St. Paul’s School, Sting experimented with multiple local bands such as ‘River City Jazzmen’ and ‘Newcastle Big Band’ but the big break came when he decided to form his own band with his teacher-training days friend Gerry Richardson, in 1974. The band was named ‘Last Exit’, coined after the Hubert Selby's cult book, the bleak "Last Exit from Brooklyn".

Sting turned to songwriting for the first time while playing with ‘Last Exit’. The Band was hugely popular in north-east circuit, but with advent of punk rock in 1976, Jazz fusion themed ‘Last Exit’ was doomed to fail

Towards the end of 1976, Stewart Copeland, drummer with Curved Air, approached Sting after seeing him perform in Newcastle and the two decided to form a band with Henri Padovani. In January 1977, Sting left his job as a teacher and left Newcastle to be a full-time musician with his new band, ‘The Police’

In 1979, The Police produced a musical composition “Reggatta de Blanc”, which brought the first Grammy for the group in 1980. Sting wrote the two biggest singles on the album “Message in a Bottle” and “Walking on the moon”.

Heavily touring with the group during 1979-1983, Sting still managed to make his film debut in the 1982 film ‘Brimstone & Tackle’. He contributed to the score and wrote a song, ‘Spread a Little Happiness’ which became his first solo hit.

Though Sting wrote and composed a lot of popular songs but his most popular song with The Police was “Every Breath You Take” from his album ‘Synchronicity’, released in 1983. It was the biggest US and UK hit of 1983 and remained on top of the Billboard hot 100 singles charts for 8 weeks and on top of UK singles chart for 4 weeks. It was nominated for three Grammy categories, winning in two of them

’Brand New Day’ (1999) was the sixth solo album of Sting and was the most successful out of all of them. It sold 3.5 million copies in United states and was hailed equally by critics and the fans. It earned the Grammy Award for Best Pop vocal album and won Sting a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.