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Track: The Wild Wild Sea
Artist: Sting
Album: The Soul Cages

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Name: Sting
Spotify Genres: soft rock
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Musician (bassist), composer, singer-songwriter, actor, author, and activist Sting was born in Wallsend, North Tyneside, England 2 October 1951, before moving to London in 1977 to form [a7987] with [a=Stewart Copeland] and [a=Andy Summers]. The band released five studio albums, earned six Grammy Awards and two Brits, and was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. One of the early bands Sumner played with was [a=The Phoenix Jazzmen]. He once performed wearing a black and yellow jersey with hooped stripes that bandleader [a=Gordon Solomon] had noted made him look like a bumblebee; thus Sumner became "Sting". He uses Sting almost exclusively, except on official documents. In a press conference, he once jokingly stated that even his children call him Sting. In 1988, he established [l52368]. As one of the world’s most distinctive solo artists, Sting has received an additional 11 Grammy Awards, two Brits, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, four Oscar nominations (most recently for “The Empty Chair” from JIM: The James Foley Story), a TONY nomination, Billboard Magazine’s Century Award, and MusiCares 2004 Person of the Year. In 2002, he received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2003, Sting received a CBE from Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for services to music. In December 2014 he received the Kennedy Center Honors, and most recently was given The American Music Award of Merit. Throughout his enduring career, he has sold close to 100 million albums from his combined work with The Police and as a solo artist. Sting’s support for human rights organizations such as the Rainforest Fund, Amnesty International and Live Aid mirrors his art in its universal outreach. Along with wife [a=Trudie Styler], Sting founded the Rainforest Fund in 1989 to protect both the world’s rainforests and the indigenous people living there. Together they have held 17 benefit concerts to raise funds and awareness for our planet’s endangered resources. Received the Polar Music Prize 2017. In 2019, Sting was honoured at the BMI Pop Awards for his enduring hit single “Every Breath You Take,” which has become the most performed song, with 15 million radio plays, from BMI’s catalog of over 14 million musical works. In May 2023, he was made an Ivor Novello Fellow. Sting married actress [a=Frances Tomelty] from Northern Ireland, on 1 May 1976. Before they divorced in 1984, they had two children: Joseph ("[a880220]") (born 23 November 1976) and Fuchsia Katherine ("[a=Kate Sumner]", born 17 April 1982). In 1982, after the birth of his second child, he separated from Tomelty and began living with actress and film producer [a=Trudie Styler]. The couple married at Camden Register Office on 20 August 1992. Sting and Styler have four children: Brigitte Michael [a=Michael Sumner] ("Mickey", born 19 January 1984), [a=Jake Sumner] (24 May 1985), Eliot Pauline [a=Eliot Sumner] (nicknamed "Coco", 30 July 1990), and Giacomo Luke (17 December 1995). Previously worked as a labourer, tax officer, bus conductor & a teacher.

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Release: Sting - The Soul Cages
Year: 1991
Genres: Rock
Styles: Soft Rock, Pop Rock

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LYRICS

I saw it again this evening,
Black sail in a pale yellow sky
And just as before in a moment,
It was gone where the grey gulls fly
If it happens again I shall worry
That only a strange ship could fly
And my sanity scans the horizon
In the light of the darkening sky.

That night, as I walked in my slumber
I waded into the sea strand
And I swam with the moon and her lover
Until I lost sight of the land
I swam till the night became morning
Black sail in a reddening sky
Found myself on the deck of a rolling ship
So far where no grey gulls fly
All around me was silence
As if mocking my frail human hopes
And a question mark hung in the canvas

For the wind that had died in the ropes
I may have slept for an hour
I may have slept for a day
For I woke in a bed of white linen
And the sky was the colour of clay.

At first, just a rustle of canvas
And the gentlest breath on my face
But a galloping line of white horses
Said that soon we were in for a race
And the gentle sigh turned to a howling
And the grey sky, she angered to black
And my anxious eyes searched the horizon
With the gathering sea at my back

Did I see the shade of a sailor
On the bridge, through the wheel-house pane
Held fast to the wheel of the rocking ship
As I squinted my eyes in the rain?
For the ship had turned into the wind
Against the storm to brace
And underneath the sailor's hat
I saw my father's face

If a prayer today is spoken
Please offer it for me
When the bridge to heaven is broken
And you're lost on the wild, wild sea
And you're lost on the wild, wild sea
And you're lost on the wild, wild sea
And you're lost on the wild, wild sea