Sting

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (420 music items)

"TIMES NOMINATED► 1 ◄2015INDUCTED AS A MEMBER OF 'THE POLICE' IN 2003STING● ROCK ● POP ● NEW WAVE ● POST-PUNK ● SKA ●● REGGAE ● JAZZ ● WORLD ● SOFT ROCK ● RIAA CERTIFICATIONS- = SINGLES = -► Gold: 1 - Platinum: 1 ◄- = STUDIO ALBUMS = - ► Gold: 1 Platinum: 5 - Multi-Platinum: 7 ◄- = LIVE ALBUMS = - ► Gold: 1 Platinum: 1 ◄KEY SONGSRoxanne (1978) - with 'The Police'- selected for 'The 660 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll'- selected for the 'Grammy Hall of Fame'Ev"

Maybe There's Still Hope for Love in Hollywood (305 person items)

"♥ Sting & Trudie Styler ♥ Together since 1982, married since August 1992."

Celebrity Buddhists (34 person items)

"Sting has incorporated some aspects of vegetarianism into his diet, but is not a vegetarian in any regular use of the term. He follows Vajrayana Buddhism."

Famous Tinnitus Sufferers (40 person items)

"Sting is known for both his solo career as well as his membership in The Police. Suffering from tinnitus, Sting has become an advocate for hearing loss awareness and a supporter of the Hear The World campaign. "

In Praise of Lenny Breau (23 music items)

" "When the Police was definitely over, I didn't want to be in a rock band anymore, so I returned to my love of jazz. I wanted to explore that kind of phrasing and improvisation. I even changed guitars, banishing the Telecaster in favour of a Gibson ES-335, because the 335 let me get more of the sounds I heard as a kid. In addition, I became more aware of the process of composing instrumental music, and I really went on a harmonic quest. I took jazz-piano lessons, and studied the music of Lenny "

Favourite Bands and Musicians: 1990's (201 person items)

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