Practical Info
Promoter: Rockhal
STING: 20:00
This is the new date for the concert of STING orginially planned for the 29 March 2022 at the Rockhal. Tickets remain valid for the new date.
Statement: “The Cherrytree Music Company and Live Nation are pleased to confirm that Stingâs My Songs concert recently postponed in Luxembourg at Rockhal has now been rescheduled to 12-November, 2022. Â Tickets for the previously scheduled performance will be honoured on the new event date.“
About
doors : 7:00 p.m
support: 8:00 p.m
Sting: 8:45 p.m
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Composer, singer-songwriter, actor, author, and activist Sting was born in Newcastle, England before moving to London in 1977 to form The Police with Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers. The band released five studio albums, earned six GRAMMY AwardsÂŽ and two Brits, and was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.
As one of the worldâs most distinctive solo artists, Sting has received an additional 11 GRAMMY AwardsÂŽ, two Brits, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, four Oscar nominations, a TONY nomination, Billboard Magazineâs Century Award, and MusiCares 2004 Person of the Year. In 2003, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for his myriad of contributions to music. Also a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, he has received the Kennedy Center Honors, The American Music Award of Merit and The Polar Music Prize. Sting has been awarded Honorary Doctorates of Music by the University of Northumbria (1992), Berklee College of Music (1994), University of Newcastle upon Tyne (2006) and Brown University at its 250th Commencement ceremony (2018).
Throughout his illustrious career, Sting has sold 100 million albums from his combined work with The Police and as a solo artist.
Following his critically acclaimed album, 57th & 9th, his first rock/pop collection in over a decade, Sting and reggae icon, Shaggy, both managed by the Cherrytree Music Company, released a collaborative, island-influenced album, entitled 44/876, drawing from the many surprising connections at the heart of their music. With its title referencing their home country codes, 44/876 first and foremost honors the duoâs mutual love for Jamaica: Shaggyâs homeland, and the place where Sting penned such classics as The Policeâs âEvery Breath You Take.â Their chart-topping release debuted at #1 in Germany and Top 10 in the UK. It spent over 20 weeks atop Billboardâs Reggae Album chart in the US, earned Gold certifications in Poland and France and received the GRAMMY AwardÂŽ for Best Reggae Album.
In 2019, Sting was honoured at the BMI Pop Awards for his enduring hit single âEvery Breath You Take,â which has become the Most Performed Song, with 15 million radio plays, from BMIâs catalog of over 14 million musical works.
Also in 2019, an album entitled My Songs, featuring contemporary interpretations of his most celebrated hits, was released and followed by a world tour of the same name, which will resume later this year and extend through 2022. Stingâs âMy Songsâ World Tour is a dynamic and exuberant show featuring his most beloved songs spanning the 17-time GRAMMY AwardÂŽ winnerâs prolific career with The Police and as a solo artist.
Always known as a musical explorer, pioneering genre-bending sounds and collaborations, Stingâs next release Duets, compiles some of his most celebrated collaborations, including those with Mary J. Blige, Herbie Hancock, Eric Clapton, Annie Lennox, Charles Aznavour, Mylène Farmer, Shaggy, Melody Gardot, Gashi and more.
Stingâs latest album, The Bridge, showcases his prolific and diverse songwriting prowess. Written and recorded in a year of global pandemic, this new collection finds him ruminating on personal loss, separation, disruption, lockdown, and extraordinary social and political turmoil. Representing various stages and styles from throughout his unrivaled career and drawing inspiration from genres including rock nâ roll, jazz, classical music and folk, the eclectic album features Stingâs quintessential sound on pop-rock tracks such as the albumâs opening rock salvo âRushing Waterâ and new indie-pop sounding âIf Itâs Love.â
Later this year, Sting will headline a Las Vegas residency, âMy Songs,â set to open at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. The show will present a compendium of Stingâs songs with dynamic, visual references to some of his most iconic videos and inspirations.
He has appeared in more than 15 films, executive produced the critically acclaimed A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, and in 1989 starred in The Threepenny Opera on Broadway. His most recent theatre project is the TonyÂŽ-nominated musical The Last Ship, inspired by his memories of the shipbuilding community of Wallsend in the northeast of England where he was born and raised. The show, with music and lyrics by Sting, ran on Broadway in 2014/2015 and completed a UK regional theatre tour which ran from March-July 2018. Thereafter, Sting starred as shipyard foreman Jackie White in the Toronto-based production of The Last Ship at the Princess of Wales Theatre. In 2020, he reprised the role for productions in Los Angeles at the Ahmanson Theatre and San Francisco at the Golden Gate Theatre.
Stingâs 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 Trudie Styler, Sting founded the Rainforest Fund in 1989 to protect both the worldâs rainforests and the indigenous people living there. Together they have held 19 benefit concerts to raise funds and awareness for our planetâs endangered resources. Since its inception, the Rainforest Fund has expanded to a network of interconnected organizations working in more than 20 countries over three continents.