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After the breaking up of The Police, band's bass player and singer, Gordon Sumner, better known as Sting, started his solo career. It was year 1984. He started to record his first solo album and it was published in 1985 and was called "The Dream of the Blue Turtles". Compared to The Police albums, the style and genre of the music was entirely different.
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Where The Police had played simple rock with taste of punk and reggae, Sting's solo debut consisted of jazz moods and beautiful melodies. The album became a huge success, and it reached triple platinum within a year of its release. After the release of the album, Sting headed to an extensive tour with his band, and the result of the tour was a live album called "Bring on the Night".
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In 1987 was realeased the second studio album called "...Nothing Like the Sun" and it was also a success and reached double platinum. The name of the album was taken from William Shakespeare's sonet. The album included song "Englishman in New York" which was probably one of the best known songs of Sting on that stage of his career. In the beginning of 1988 was released album "...Nada Como el Sol" that is a porguese translation of "...Nothing Like the Sun". Album includes portuguese versions of five songs that were taken from Sting's first two solo albums.
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"...Nothing Like the Sun" was followed by "Soul Cages" that were released in 1991. The album's title track won a Grammy Award. It also includes song "All This Time" that became also very popular and got a lot of radio air. "Soul Cages" was considered as the most difficult and complex part of Sting discography. Maybe that's way it wasn't so popular as its predecessors.
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Two years after the release of "Soul Cages" was released "Ten Summoner's Tales" that included hit singles "Fields of Gold" and "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You". In November that year, a hit collection "Fields of Gold" was released. It gathered together the brightest moments of Stings' solo career so far.
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Sting's fifth studio album "Mercury Falling" was published in 1996. Although it is a very strong album, it didn't stay very long on the charts. Two of it singles reached top 40. Sting's next album, that was released in 1999 and was called "Brand New Day", was more succesful than "Mercury Falling", reaching triple platinum. The album also won him two Grammy awards.
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In 11th of September 2001, world as we knew it, changed many ways. It was also a day, when Sting had a concert on his villa in Italy. It was ment to be called "On a such night", but due to the terrorist attacks in U.S. it was finally called "...All This Time". It was released as a live album and live DVD.
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In 2003 was published "Sacred Love" album. The album featured guest appearences from soul singer "Mary J. Blige" and sitar player "Anoushka Shankar". The duet with "Mary J. Blige" won a Grammy award. The album didn't include hit singles, but the album itself reached platinum in the beginning of 2004.
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Sting's autobiography was released in October that same year. It tells the story of Sting, from his birth to the days of "The Police".
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"Songs from the Labyrinth", was released in 2006, and it features music of "John Dowland". All the songs are sung by Sting with "Edin Karamazov" playing lute. In October 2009 Sting released an album called "If on A Winter's Night", which is a theme-album featuring songs about winter. Album contains mainly new songs but also a new version of "The Hounds of Winter" is recorded for the album.
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In 2010, and album containing orchestared versions of Sting's songs were released. The album was called Symphonicities and it was recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. After the release, Sting made an extensive tour with the orchestra. The concert in Berlin, Germany was filmed
and recorded and was released as live DVD and live album in November 2010. It was called simply "Live in Berlin".
