title: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

text: In the third season, Midge's career is on an upswing touring with Shy Baldwin. Balancing her comedy career and family life is difficult, however. Although Midge and Joel are divorcing, they remain in each other's lives, even as both navigate new romantic relationships. Midge is furious when Susie agrees to manage the eccentric and unpredictable Sophie Lennon, then realizes Susie needs multiple clients to financially survive. Joel forges a different path into the entertainment industry by opening a nightclub in Chinatown, later discovering his landlords run a gambling den downstairs. After carelessly alluding to Shy's homosexuality during her set at the Apollo Theater, Midge is fired from the Baldwin tour.


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text: The fourth season finds Midge enraged and humiliated after being fired. She struggles to restart her career and vows to only do headliner gigs, not opening acts. Complicating matters, a "Daily News" reporter continually disparages Midge's performances in print. Meanwhile, a jealous Sophie Lennon again thwarts Midge's career. Joel's landlords are unhappy that his successful club draws attention to their illegal activities. Joel also copes with girlfriend Mei's unexpected pregnancy, his mother's meddling, and his father's heart attack. Midge becomes the comic emcee at a strip club, seemingly content to languish there until police raid the place. Lenny Bruce gets Midge out in time, then helps reboot her career.


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text: In developing the series, Amy Sherman-Palladino was inspired by childhood memories of her father, a standup comedian based in NYC, and an admiration for early female comics such as Joan Rivers and Totie Fields.


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text: In June 2016, Amazon gave the production a pilot order. The pilot episode was written by Sherman-Palladino, who was also executive producer. It premiered as a part of Amazon's Spring 2017 pilot season on March 17, 2017. On April 10, Amazon gave the production a two-season order, to be executive produced by Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino with Dhana Gilbert as a producer. The series premiered on November 29, 2017.


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text: On May 20, 2018, Amazon renewed the series for a third season of eight episodes. The second season premiered on December 5, 2018, and the third season premiered December 6, 2019. One week after season three was released, Amazon renewed the show for a fourth season.


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text: On August 5, 2016, Rachel Brosnahan was cast in the pilot's lead role. In September 2016, it was reported that Tony Shalhoub and Michael Zegen had joined the pilot's main cast. On October 6, 2016, Marin Hinkle was cast in one of the pilot's main roles. In May 2017, it was reported that Joel Johnstone, Caroline Aaron, Kevin Pollak, and Bailey De Young were set to appear in recurring roles.


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text: On May 23, 2018, Zachary Levi was announced to appear in the second season in a recurring capacity. On August 15, 2018, it was reported that Jane Lynch would reprise her role of Sophie Lennon in recurring capacity in season two.


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text: On April 15, 2019, it was announced that Sterling K. Brown would appear in the third season in an undisclosed role. The October 14, 2019, release of the season's teaser trailer revealed that Liza Weil would also play an undisclosed character.


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text: On June 21, 2021, Kayli Carter was announced to appear in the fourth season in a recurring capacity. Other season 4 guest stars include Milo Ventimiglia and Kelly Bishop, who both appeared on "Gilmore Girls" which was created by Amy Sherman-Palladino. Additional season 4 guest stars include Jason Ralph (who is Rachel Brosnahan's real-life husband) and filmmaker John Waters.


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text: Principal photography for the pilot took place from September 27 to October 14, 2016, in Manhattan. Filming for the fourth season began on January 20, 2021 and wrapped in early July 2021. Filming for the fifth season began in late February 2022 in New York City.


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text: Exterior shots for the Gaslight Club were filmed in October 2016 outside 96 St. Mark's Place in the Lower East Side, the building featured on the cover of Led Zeppelin's 1975 album "Physical Graffiti". The building's residents were reportedly unhappy about the disruption that the production would cause.


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text: Other New York locations included The Village Vanguard jazz club on Seventh Avenue South, a vintage record store on West 4th Street, and butcher's shop on Elizabeth Street in Little Italy which was also used as a location for the 1990 film "The Godfather Part III". Exterior scenes set at the B. Altman department store were filmed at the B. Altman and Company Building at Fifth Avenue, while interiors were shot in a disused bank in Brooklyn.


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text: Season 2's scenes set at the holiday resort in the Catskills were filmed on location at a holiday resort on the Oquaga Lake near Deposit. Paris scenes were filmed at various real-life locations in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, and at the Musée Rodin at Hôtel Biron. One of the hotels in season 3 was the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.


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text: The show makes frequent use of "oners," extended single-shot scenes. "Going to the Catskills" offers a two-minute oner depicting Midge and her family getting rambunctiously resettled in their summer home in the Catskills. It included a half-dozen overlapping vignettes. In "Strike Up the Band," in a 12-page scene, Midge comes into their apartment to find her parents fighting, with her clothes scattered everywhere. In another, Midge and Susie ride in an open Jeep to an airplane hangar where Midge will later open for Shy. The camera follows them from the Jeep into the hangar, where soldiers manhandle her onto the stage, which she crosses while waving to the nearly 1,000 soldiers facing her before she is lifted back into the Jeep.


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text: The "apartment" where Midge and her husband Joel live was created on the same set as the apartment where Midge's parents live, but with more modern (late-1950s) design, inspired in part by Doris Day movies, according to production designer Bill Groom. The "retro" typeface used for the show's logo is "Sparkly" by Stuart Sandler of Font Diner. The show's distinctive designs and costumes—most notably the women's hats and dresses—led the Paley Center for Media to create an exhibit called "Making Maisel Marvelous" in 2019.


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text: In December 2019, two costumes from the series were acquired by the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.


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text: On October 10, 2017, the official trailer for the first season was released. On August 9, 2018, a teaser trailer for the second season was released. On October 24, 2018, the official trailer for season two was released. From December 1–8, 2018, Amazon opened up a pop-up restaurant in Manhattan's Nolita neighborhood modeled after Carnegie Deli as it appeared during the 1950s. The restaurant served a menu much more limited than what was actually offered at the original deli with the only two sandwich options being "The Maisel" and "The Susie." Other items offered included mini knishes, black and white cookies, cheesecake, and pickles. As the restaurant was purely for promotional purposes, nothing on the menu cost more than 99 cents, and all the proceeds went to support the Lower Eastside Girls Club.


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text: In August 2019, to promote the show for the upcoming 71st Primetime Emmy Awards, Amazon partnered with various businesses in and around Santa Monica, California, to provide goods and services at 1959 prices. The offer to sell gasoline at $0.30 per gallon led to long queues and traffic jams in front of the gas station that offered the promotion, forcing police to intervene.


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text: The series held its official premiere on November 13, 2017, at the Village East Cinema in New York City.


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text: Season 4's release format changes from the all-at-once binge of previous seasons to weekly releases of two episodes each.


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text: The series has received broad critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, it received an overall score of 89% and an overall score of 78 on Metacritic.


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text: On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the first season holds a 94% approval rating, with an average rating of 7.6 out of 10 based on 82 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, ""The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" is an upbeat addition to Amazon's original offerings, propelled by a playful yet poignant performance by Rachel Brosnahan." On Metacritic, the series has an average weighted score of 80 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".


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text: The pilot episode of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" was one of Amazon Video's most successful ever, achieving an average viewer rating of 4.9 (out of 5). The review of the pilot in "The Guardian" praised the combination of Sherman-Palladino's "banging dialogue and the utterly winning charm of Brosnahan", while "The A.V. Club" praised the "outstanding" production design and said "this is a series that's as confident as its heroine—and what a heroine she is." A critic for "Slate" called the episode "a knockout", stating that the stand-up element "introduces a welcome streak of discipline, both verbal and thematic, into Sherman-Palladino's charming but manic work."


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text: "The Jerusalem Post" highlighted the exceptionally well done "Jewishness" of the work, calling it a "comedic delight of a show, combining Sherman-Palladino's knack for witty dialogue with the colorful, rich world of 1950s New York and the intensity of family drama and changing times." NPR similarly highlighted the effectiveness of the comedy in the show, calling it "a heroic fantasy."


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text: On Rotten Tomatoes, the second season holds a 92% approval rating, with an average rating of 8.2 out of 10 based on 72 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Like Midge herself, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" charges full speed ahead in a second season brimming with warmth, empowerment, and a whole lot of laughs." Metacritic assigned the season a score of 85 out of 100 based on 24 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Karen Lehrman Bloch called it "a timeless, transcendent work of art".


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text: On Rotten Tomatoes, the third season holds a 79% approval rating, with an average rating of 7.6 out of 10 based on 52 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "As visually spectacular as ever, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"s banter and pace still fly with comedic fury – but shallow social commentary and wandering storylines highlight the show's increasingly superficial tendencies." Metacritic assigned the season a score of 75 out of 100 based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Alan Sepinwall of "Rolling Stone" wrote that it offered "a lot of energy and fancy footwork that often makes no sense".


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text: On Rotten Tomatoes, the fourth season holds an 91% approval rating, with an average rating of 7.5 out of 10 based on 46 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, ""The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" has seemingly run out of fresh material, but it continues to reward fans with expert delivery and snappy presentation." Metacritic assigned the season a score of 65 out of 100 based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".


title: Mahesh Babu

text: Ghattamaneni Mahesh Babu (born 9 August 1975) is an Indian actor, producer, media personality, and philanthropist who works mainly in Telugu cinema. He has appeared in more than 25 films, and won several accolades including, eight Nandi Awards, five Filmfare Telugu Awards, four SIIMA Awards, three CineMAA Awards, and one IIFA Utsavam Award. One of the highest-paid Telugu film actors, he also owns the production house G. Mahesh Babu Entertainment.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: The younger son of veteran Telugu actor Krishna, Babu made his debut as a child artist in a cameo role in "Needa" (1979), at the age of four, and acted in eight other films as a child artist. He made his debut as a lead actor with "Rajakumarudu" (1999) which won him Nandi Award for Best Male Debut. Babu achieved his breakthrough with the supernatural drama "Murari" (2001), and the action film "Okkadu" (2003). He went on to act in other commercially successful films such as "Athadu" (2005), "Pokiri" (2006), "Dookudu" (2011), "Businessman" (2012), "Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu" (2013), "" (2014), "Srimanthudu" (2015), "Bharat Ane Nenu" (2018), "Maharshi" (2019), "Sarileru Neekevvaru" (2020) and "Sarkaru Vaari Paata" (2022). "Pokiri" held the record of being the highest-grossing Telugu film while "Sarileru Neekevvaru", his highest grosser, collected over at the box office.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: Referred to in the media as the Prince of Tollywood, he is one of the most popular and influential actors of Telugu cinema. In addition to being an actor, he is a humanitarian and philanthropist – he runs a charitable trust and non-profit organisation, Heal-a-Child. He is also associated with Rainbow Hospitals as their goodwill ambassador. He plunged into the film exhibition business along with Narayandas Narang of Asian Group with the inauguration of the seven-screen superplex at Gachibowli AMB Cinemas.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: Mahesh Babu was born on 9 August 1975 in a Telugu speaking family in Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India. He is the fourth of the five children of Telugu actor Krishna and Indira, after Ramesh Babu, Padmavathi, and Manjula and before Priyadarshini. Their family hails from Burripalem in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. Babu spent his childhood mostly in Madras under the care of his maternal grandmother Durgamma and the rest of his family. Since Krishna was busy with his film commitments, Ramesh Babu used to look after Mahesh Babu's academic performance. Along with his siblings, Babu used to play cricket regularly at the VGP Golden beach in Madras. To spend time with him, Krishna used to make sure that his films' shoots would be conducted at the VGP Universal Kingdom during the weekends.


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text: Krishna also made sure that none of his children would reveal his name during their schooling to ensure a peaceful environment. He was educated at St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, Chennai where actor Karthi was his schoolmate. Babu in an interview said that actor Vijay and he have been longtime close friends and studied at the same college, before establishing themselves in their respective film industries. Babu was an above average student. He obtained a bachelor's degree in commerce from the Loyola College, Chennai. After graduating, he met with director L. Satyanand in Vishakhapatnam for further training in acting which went on for three to four months. Being unable to read and write Telugu, he used to memorise the dialogues given by his directors during the dubbing phase of his films.


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text: At the age of four, Babu visited the sets of the Telugu film "Needa" (1979) where its director Dasari Narayana Rao shot a few sequences of his as a part of the narrative in the presence of the former's brother Ramesh. "Needa" marked his debut as a child actor. During the shoot of "Poratam" (1983) at Vauhini Studios, after watching Babu on the sets, director Kodi Ramakrishna suggested to Krishna that he cast Babu in the role of the protagonist's brother. Initially terrified, Babu agreed to act in the film after being persuaded by the film's crew. He went on to act as a child artist in the films "Sankharavam" (1987), "Bazaar Rowdy" (1988), "Mugguru Kodukulu" (1988) and "Gudachari 117" (1989). He played a dual role in the film "Koduku Diddina Kapuram" (1989). Babu then appeared in "Bala Chandrudu" (1990), and "Anna Thammudu" (1990). Later, he continued his college studies.


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text: In 1999, Babu made his debut as a lead actor with the film "Raja Kumarudu", directed by K. Raghavendra Rao and co-starring Priety Zinta. The film was commercially successful, and people began referring to him with the title Prince. The film had a 50-day run in 80 centres and a 100-day run in 44 centres. "Raja Kumarudu" collected a share of 10.51 Crores from Andhra Pradesh. It was dubbed in Hindi as "Prince No. 1" and in Tamil as "Kaadhal Vennila". The film was again dubbed and released theatrically in Tamil during January 2017 as "Ivan Oru Thunichalkaran". He received the Nandi Award for Best Male Debut. He starred in two films the following year – "Yuvaraju" and "Vamsi". Following their poor performance at the box office, Babu starred in Krishna Vamsi "Murari" the next year. He called "Murari" an important film in his career and the role he played in it one of his favourites. "Murari" was a commercial success and earned him the Nandi Special Jury Award. Though his 2002 releases "Takkari Donga" and "Bobby" performed poorly at the box office, Babu received his second Nandi Special Jury Award for his performance in the former.


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text: Babu had two film releases in 2003, the first one being Gunasekhar "Okkadu" co-starring Bhumika Chawla, which went on to become the highest grossing Telugu film of the year collecting 23 crores at the box office. He won his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu for his performance in the film. The other release was Teja "Nijam" co-starring Rakshita. The film was noted for introducing Dolby EX surround system in Telugu cinema. Though the film was a commercial failure, Babu received praise from the critics for his performance in the film, with Vijayalaxmi of Rediff.com calling him the only reason to watch the film's second half which she termed a routine tale of vendetta. He won his first Nandi Best Actor Award for his performance in the film.


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text: Manjula produced his next film, "Naani", directed by S. J. Surya co-starring Amisha Patel. While its simultaneously shot Tamil version "New" featuring a different cast was commercially successful, "Naani" flopped at the box office. He received the Nandi Special Jury Award for his performance in his next film, "Arjun", directed by Gunasekhar and produced by Ramesh. The failure of "Naani" depressed both Babu and Manjula, who took a small break in Goa before resuming their other commitments. He chose to act in Trivikram Srinivas "Athadu", co-starring Trisha Krishnan, whose script had been approved back in 2002 before the production of "Naani" and "Arjun" had begun. "Athadu" became one of the highest-grossing films of the year. The film was a commercially profitable venture for the producers and distributors. The film benefited Babu's career as he won the Nandi Best Actor Award for his performance in the role of a hired assassin. "Athadu" collected a share of 22 crores at the box office. Idlebrain gave it a rating of 3.25/5 and mentioned Mahesh Babu is stylish and brilliant as professional killer.


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text: Babu collaborated with Puri Jagannadh in 2006 for the film "Pokiri", which was jointly produced by Jagannadh and Manjula. Made on a budget of 10 crore and shot within six months, "Pokiri" became the highest grossing Telugu film of all time by the end of its run, and was screened at the 7th IIFA Awards held in Dubai. Babu received praise for his performance, with Y. Sunita Chowdary of "The Hindu" opining that "Mahesh's understated performance in "Pokiri" allows him effortlessly to reclaim the title of a star, overshadowing more questionable recent career choices". He won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu for the second time.


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text: "Pokiri" grossed 67 crore at the box office. That same year, his next film, "Sainikudu", co-starring Trisha, was released amid huge expectations but flopped at the box office.


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text: The following year saw Babu acting in the film "Athidhi", co-starring Amrita Rao marking her Telugu debut. The film was produced by Mahesh Babu's's brother Ramesh. UTV Motion Pictures acquired the film's distribution rights for 18.5 crore, which became its first Telugu film venture. In 2008, Babu provided voice-over for the film "Jalsa" directed by Trivikram Srinivas.


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text: After "Athidhi" release, Babu took a break from films for seven months; two months later, he signed "Khaleja", but the break was unintentionally extended for two years due to several delays. During this time, Babu's grandmother and his wife Namrata's parents died. Krishna was worried about Babu's career as the film's shoot was delayed for so long. Upon release, "Khaleja" received mixed reviews from critics and was a commercial failure in India. However, it managed to perform well at the overseas box office. Rediff gave a 3 out of 5 rating and noted "The duo of Mahesh-Trivikram delivers a product that is watchable, entertaining with good humour, couple of well-orchestrated action sequences and songs and with a bit to take home as well. It's Mahesh's show all the way, much to the delight of his fans. Mahesh is the soul of the movie, be it his dialogue delivery, his action, his dances or emotions, he is effortless. The film is considered one of the "25 Greatest Telugu Films Of The Decade" by "Film Companion".


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text: In 2011, Babu collaborated with Srinu Vaitla for the film "Dookudu", which was inspired in part by the 2003 German tragicomedy film "Good Bye, Lenin!". Co-starring Samantha Ruth Prabhu, the film received positive reviews upon release and became one of the highest-grossing films of the year. "Dookudu" had the largest opening for a Telugu film, and collected a share of 10.11 crore and a gross of 12.58 crore on the first day of its release. "The Los Angeles Times" called "Dookudu" the "biggest hit you've never heard of". For his performance in the film, Babu won the Best Actor Award at the 2012 Nandi Awards ceremony. He also won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu at the 59th Filmfare Awards South and 1st South Indian International Movie Awards ceremonies. After the film's gross crossed the 100 crore mark, Income Tax Department officials conducted a raid on Babu's Jubilee Hills residence as he was rumoured to be getting a remuneration of more than 12 crore for his next projects. The film collected a distributor share of 57.4 crore in its lifetime and grossed more than 100 crore in its lifetime. Suresh Kavirayani of "The Times of India" rated it 4 out of 5 and wrote ""Dookudu" is a typical Srinu Vytla film with a generous sprinkling of comedy. His narrative manages to keep the audience engaged until the end of the movie. This movie comes as a blessing for not just Mahesh Babu, but also for Tollywood, which is badly in need of a hit, after the recent spate of box office debacles. Srinu Vytla and Mahesh Babu have come out with a winner in "Dookudu"".


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text: He later played the role of a mafia kingpin with a hidden personal agenda in the film "Businessman", co-starring Kajal Aggarwal and directed by Puri Jagannadh. Upon the film's release, Babu received praise from the critics for his performance in the film, with Y. Sunita Chowdary of "The Hindu" writing, "The film has no frills, no vulgar wastage and the hero is practically in every frame; you hear only his voice, he looks good, sounds good, he also steals the comedian's job. Mahesh plays it straight.". It grossed approximately 18.73 crore and collected a share of 13.78 crore at the global box office on its first day creating an all-time record in terms of opening day collections. "Businessman" became one of the highest grossing Telugu films of the year. "Businessman" collected a share of 41 crore at the box office. He received a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu at both the 60th Filmfare Awards South and the 2nd South Indian International Movie Awards ceremonies. By then, Babu was reported to be the second highest-paid actor in South India after Rajinikanth.


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text: Babu then began filming for Srikanth Addala "Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu", whose script Babu had approved during the pre-production phase of "Dookudu". Co-starring Daggubati Venkatesh along with Anjali and Samantha Ruth Prabhu, "Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu" became the first Telugu multistarrer film to be produced in the last twenty-five years. Released in January 2013, the film became one of the highest grossing Telugu films of the year and marked the completion of Babu's hat-trick of successful films. Sangeetha Devi Dundoo of "The Hindu" called the film a "delightful family drama with its celebration of family bonds, love and marriage laced with laughter", and Addala "wants to leave his audience with a thought, wants them to reflect on their relationships and overlook skirmishes that can sour family bonds". Dundoo cited Guhan's cinematography as one of the film's highlights, and praised its performances. He won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu at the 61st Filmfare Awards South ceremony and the 3rd South Indian International Movie Awards ceremony. He provided voice-over for Srinu Vaitla's "Baadshah" the same year. "Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu" collected a distributor share of ₹51.2 crore and was the second-highest-grossing Telugu film of the year.


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text: Babu had two releases in 2014, the first one being Sukumar "", an action thriller focusing on a celebrity suffering from hallucinations related to the murder of his parents and the discovery of a special variety of rice. Kriti Sanon played the female lead in this film, marking her acting debut. Made on a budget of around 70 crore, "" was released amid huge expectations, but received mixed reviews from the critics, turning out to be a box office bomb by incurring a loss of around 26–27 crore. However, Babu's performance received praise, with critics calling it one of his best performances. He also earned a nomination for the Best Actor – Telugu at the 4th South Indian International Movie Awards. Grossing over $1.32 million,"" became the fourth-highest-grossing Telugu film in history at the United States box office at that time. Sangeetha Devi Dundoo of "The Hindu" wrote, "How often do we get to watch a Telugu film where the audience, along with the protagonist and supporting characters, is also required to think and distinguish between events unfolding in real and imaginary spaces?" and called "1 Nenokkadine" a "visually stunning" film. The film earned a distributor share of about 28.9 crore, on a budget of 70 crore. The film is considered one of the "25 Greatest Telugu Films Of The Decade" by "Film Companion". The other release, "Aagadu", directed by Srinu Vaitla and co-starring Tamannaah, flopped at the box office, even though it had a gross of 60 crore. Karthik Pasupulate of "The Times of India" gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and called "Aagadu" "Dookudu 2.0" in operating system parlance. Pasupulate added that it seems more like a remake of "Dookudu" with a "much louder Mahesh Babu, more banal jokes, and a few superficial twists in the screenplay", and that the end product is "more slapstick than funny".


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text: Babu collaborated with Koratala Siva for the action drama film "Srimanthudu" co-starring Shruti Haasan. He co-produced the film under his newly formed banner G. Mahesh Babu Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, marking his first film production venture. He opted to do so in order to control the film's budget, accepting a share in profits in lieu of remuneration. Released on 7 August 2015, "Srimanthudu" opened to positive reviews from critics, was commercially successful, and he gained the Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu at the 63rd Filmfare Awards South, marking his resurgence. Sethumadhavan N. of "Bangalore Mirror" stated, "Srimanthudu" wouldn't have been as effective if it did not have Mahesh Babu who is at his charming best, adding that he "underplays the emotional scenes, making them a treat to watch".


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text: The film was a commercial success, grossing nearly ₹200 crore globally on a budget of ₹40-70 crore and becoming the second-highest grossing Telugu film of all time and the highest grossing Telugu-language-only film of the time. After the film's release, many actors, bureaucrats and politicians announced plans to develop backward villages and encouraged the adoption of villages in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Babu himself has adopted his native village, Burripalem.


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text: Babu acted in Srikanth Addala's film "Brahmotsavam" co-starring Kajal Aggarwal, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Pranitha Subhash. Originally produced as a bi-lingual, the film would've marked Babu's first straight Tamil film. However, later on the plan was altered due to its disastrous performance at the Telugu box office and the film wasn't released in Tamil. While the film underperformed at the box office, the "Deccan Chronicle" stated that Mahesh Babu was its saving grace. The film was criticised by the public, for its lack of a proper story. Babu stated that this was an error of judgement, where he had picked the wrong director.


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text: He later appeared in the Telugu-Tamil bilingual "Spyder", directed by A. R. Murugadoss, which finally marked his Tamil cinema debut and grossed over ₹113 crore at the box office. The film received mixed reviews, but was praised for S. J. Surya and Mahesh Babu's performances, especially the former, whereas critics panned the writing, screenplay and direction. Y. Sunita Chowdary of "The Hindu" stated that ""Spyder" starts off well but the director’s imagination goes overboard only to turn a purpose ridden plot to a piece of travesty.".


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text: His next film was a political action drama "Bharat Ane Nenu", directed by Koratala Siva and co-starring Kiara Advani. In this film, he played the role of a chief minister. It went on to gross more than , and was second highest-grossing film of that year. Hemanth Kumar of "Firstpost" wrote "Mahesh Babu, Koratala Siva deliver an intense political drama". Kumar also said, "He (Siva) has shown yet again that there's plenty of drama when a normal guy takes an uncommon path. Bharat might have become the messiah of the state in the story, but it's Mahesh Babu who leaves a long lasting impression in the end. Two big thumbs up for the film. It delivers more than what it promises" giving 4 stars out of 5. His next film, "Maharshi" (2019) directed by Vamshi Paidipally and co-starring Pooja Hegde collected a total of worldwide. Hemanth Kumar of "Firstpost" mentioned the film owes a lot to Mahesh Babu's conviction to pull off his role and he makes you believe in his characterisation so much that it doesn't feel like fiction. His flamboyance in the college sequences and the maturity with which he pulled off the village segments is noteworthy. The film was awarded the Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment at the 68th National Film Awards and Babu won his fourth SIIMA Award for Best Actor – Telugu.


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text: His 2020 film "Sarileru Neekevvaru" collected in worldwide box office, becoming one of the highest-grossing Telugu films. Hemanth Kumar of "Firstpost" mentioned "Sarileru Neekevvaru" packages oodles of humour and action in right measures for Babu to hit the ball out of the park. Everything else is just a bonus or a distraction. He next began filming for "Sarkaru Vaari Paata," marking his maiden collaboration with director Parasuram in January 2021. The film was released in May 2022 to mixed reviews from critics. Although the screenplay and story received criticism, Babu's performance in the film received praise from various critics including "The Hindu","" "Hindustan Times," "India Today" and "Pinkvilla."


title: Mahesh Babu

text: Babu has two upcoming films in various stages production. Babu is set to re-unite with Trivikram Srinivas for their third collaboration from April 2022. He is also committed to star in S. S. Rajamouli's untitled film which is expected to begin its production in 2023. The film is touted to be a jungle adventure set in Africa.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: Babu is considered one of the most popular actors in Telugu cinema. He is widely referred in the media as "Superstar of Tollywood" and "Prince Mahesh Babu". Hemanth Kumar C. R. of "Vogue" felt that "Murari" (2001), "Okkadu" (2003), "Athadu" (2005), "Pokiri" (2006), "Khaleja" (2010), "Dookudu" (2011), "" (2014), "Srimanthudu" (2015) and "Bharat Ane Nenu" (2018) are the films that made Mahesh Babu, a superstar in the film industry.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: His popularity has been documented in several Telugu films such as "Ashta Chamma" (2008), "Kiraak" (2014), and "Superstar Kidnap" (2015). He joined Twitter in April 2010 and has 12 million followers as of July 2021.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: He was ranked twelfth on the Times' 50 Most Desirable Men in India for the year 2010, fifth in 2011, and second in 2012. He climbed to the first position of the same list for the year 2013, beating the likes of Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan, and Shah Rukh Khan. He stood at sixth place on the same list for the year 2014, sixth in 2015, seventh in 2016, and sixth in 2017. He was then added to the Forever Desirable list along with Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, and Hrithik Roshan.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: Babu is an ambassador for about three dozen Indian brands. In 2007, he signed a five-year endorsement deal with the cola company Thums Up to replace Chiranjeevi as its brand ambassador in Andhra Pradesh. He endorsed brands such as UniverCell Mobile Store, Navratna Oil, Amrutanjan, Provogue, ITC Vivel, Jos Alukkas, Idea Cellular, Santoor Soap, South India Shopping Mall, Royal Stag, Rainbow Hospitals, TVS Motor Company, Mahindra Tractors, Paragon footwear, and Tata Sky in South India. He was signed as the brand ambassador of Intex Mobiles in August 2015 for one year. In 2012, he replaced Akshay Kumar as the national brand ambassador for Thums Up across India. He also promotes the real estate firm Ramakrishna Venuzia. Babu commands a figure of 2.53 crore per endorsement per annum, thus earning around 30 crore per annum as a brand ambassador. In 2016, he was signed as the brand ambassador of YuppTV and AbhiBus. In February 2018 he was signed as the brand ambassador for Protinex. Some of the other brands he endorses, or had endorsed previously, include Chennai Silks, Sai Surya Developers, Close-Up, Gold Winner, Denver Deodorant, Lloyd AC, Flipkart, Helo app, Byju's, CarDekho, Jeep India, Whitehat Junior, Lloyd Refrigerators, Jeevan Saathi, Health OK Tablets, Big C Mobiles, Pan Bahar Elaichi, Mountain Dew, Bambino foods, and Everest Spices. Overall, he has endorsed 41 brands thus far. He has also shot a couple of unique concept videos for Zee Telugu to promote their upcoming TV shows. In 2022, Mahesh Babu ended his association with Thums Up. The same year, he faced criticism for endorsing the brand Pan Bahar Elaichi, after the statement–"Bollywood cannot afford me" he made during a promotional event of "Major".


title: Mahesh Babu

text: Babu has also supported AIG Hospitals' "End Corona Campaign", which was aimed at creating awareness about the COVID-19 vaccine. It was one of the world's largest virtual awareness campaigns on the COVID-19 vaccine.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: Babu stood in 31st place on "Forbes India"s Celebrity 100 list for the year 2012, with annual earnings of 42.25 crore. He slipped to 54th place on the same list for the year 2013, with his annual earnings dropping to 28.96 crore. In the following year, he climbed to the 30th position with an annual earning figure of 51 crore. In 2015, he placed 36th, the highest ranking Telugu celebrity, with an income of 51 crore. He was placed 37th, 33rd and 54th consecutively in the years leading up to 2019 with an annual earning of 35 crore. Babu was once criticized for his limited and predictable wardrobe when attending events.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: In 2019, his wax statue was unveiled in "Madame Tussauds Singapore". "Hindustan Times" reported that Babu was the first Telugu actor to get a wax statue at Madame Tussauds, while Baahubali (portrayed by Prabhas) was the first Telugu film character. He was also the first Indian actor whose wax statue was flown back for a day for unveiling at his hometown.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: During the shoot of B. Gopal "Vamsi" at Australia, Babu began to date his co-star Namrata Shirodkar. After being in a relationship for four years, they decided to get married, and Manjula convinced Krishna in favour of their decision. They were married on 10 February 2005 at the Marriott Hotel, Mumbai during the shooting of "Athadu". The couple's first child was born on 31 August 2006 at the Global Hospital in Hyderabad. The boy, named Gautham Krishna, was a premature baby and was in critical condition during his birth. His condition turned stable after the doctors treated him in time. On 20 July 2012, Shirodkar gave birth to a girl whom they named Sitara. Before her delivery, they preserved her stem cells using stem cell banking to ensure a better immunity level.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: Babu is the fourth child in a family of five children. His elder brother Ramesh Babu was a film producer and was also an actor. Mahesh Babu's eldest sister Padmavathi is married to Galla Jayadev, an industrialist and Member of the Indian Parliament from the Telugu Desam Party. His elder sister Manjula is a film producer, director, and an actress. Priyadarshini, his younger sister, is married to Sudheer Babu, who later made his debut as an actor in Telugu cinema.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: Telugu actress and filmmaker Vijaya Nirmala was Babu's step-mother, and actor Naresh is his step-brother.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: Babu gives 30% of his annual income to charities, and most of his philanthropic activities are unpublicised because he prefers them to be so. He joined Farhan Akhtar Men Against Rape and Discrimination (MARD) campaign in August 2013 and lent his voice to the Telugu version of a poem written by Javed Akhtar. He was signed in 2013 as the goodwill ambassador of Heal-a-child Foundation, a non-profit organisation that offers financial support to the parents of terminally ill children to help with the cost of medical treatment. In October 2014, he donated 25 lakh to a relief fund run by the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh for reconstruction of areas destroyed during Cyclone Hudhud. Krishna and Vijaya Nirmala later donated 25 lakh to the fund.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: Jayadev announced in February 2015 that Babu would adopt Krishna's native village Burripalem, a minor panchayat in Tenali, and would address basic needs of the community such as potable drinking water and better roads and drainage systems. Later, Namrata Shirodkar was quoted saying that they had adopted Siddapur village in Mahbubnagar district upon consultation with Telangana's Rural Development minister K. T. Rama Rao.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: In September 2004, Babu and director Gunasekhar attended a rally organised by his fans at Warangal for the promotional activities of "Arjun". He and his fans allegedly raided two video libraries and assaulted their owners who were circulating unauthorised CDs of the film. Cases under IPC section 448 (criminal trespass), section 427 (mischief) and section 366 (kidnap) were registered on him, who was the principal accused, and five others. Later, a delegation from the Telugu film industry, including his father Krishna, Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna, Allu Aravind and D. Suresh Babu, approached the then chief minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy to intervene in this case. Regarding the issue, Babu said that while cases were booked against him on "the basis of wrong information," not a single case had been booked against the person dealing in bootlegged CDs, which he found the "funniest" thing. Actor Pawan Kalyan openly supported Babu throughout the episode. Babu surrendered in the district court in September 2004 and appeared before the court again in April 2006. Babu and the others were exonerated after the final hearing in July 2006.


title: Mahesh Babu

text: Mahesh Babu is a recipient of eight Nandi Awards, five Filmfare South Awards, three CineMAA Awards, three Santosham Film Awards, four SIIMA Awards and one IIFA Utsavam Award.


title: Android version history

text: The version history of the Android mobile operating system began with the public release of the Android beta on November 5, 2007. The first commercial version, Android 1.0, was released on September 23, 2008. Android is developed by Google in which new major releases are announced at Google I/O along with its first public beta to supported Google Pixel devices and its stable version released later in the year.


title: Android version history

text: The development of Android started in 2003 by Android, Inc., which was purchased by Google in 2005. There were at least two internal releases of the software inside Google and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) before the beta version was released. The beta was released on November 5, 2007, while the software development kit (SDK) was released on November 12, 2007. Several public beta versions of the SDK were released. These releases were done through software emulation as physical devices did not exist to test the operating system. Both the operating system itself and the SDK were released along with their source code, as free software under the Apache License.


title: Android version history

text: The first public release of Android 1.0 occurred with the release of the T-Mobile G1 (aka HTC Dream) in October 2008. Android 1.0 and 1.1 were not released under specific code names. The code names "Astro Boy" and "Bender" were tagged internally on some of the early pre-1.0 milestone builds and were never used as the actual code names of the 1.0 and 1.1 releases of the OS.


title: Android version history

text: The project manager, Ryan Gibson, conceived using a confectionery-themed naming scheme for public releases, starting with Android 1.5 Cupcake. Google announced in August 2019 they were ending the confectionery theming scheme to use numerical ordering for future versions. The first release under the numerical order format was Android 10, which was released September 2019.


title: Android version history

text: In 2017, Google announced that Google Play would begin to require apps to target a recent Android version. Since then, a new major Android version has been released in the second half of each year, and apps must target it by August 1 of the following year for new apps, or November 1 for app updates.


title: Android version history

text: The following tables show the release dates and key features of all Android operating system updates to date, listed chronologically by their official application programming interface (API) levels.


title: Android version history

text: The main hardware platform for Android is the 64-bit ARM architecture (i.e. ARMv8-A; previously the 32-bit ARMv7 architecture was supported and first ARMv5), with x86 and MIPS architectures also officially supported in later versions of Android, but MIPS support has since been deprecated and support was removed in NDK r17.


title: Android version history

text: Android1.0 through 1.5 required a 2 megapixel camera with autofocus camera. This was relaxed to a fixed-focus camera with Android1.6.


title: Android version history

text: In 2012, Android devices with Intel processors began to appear, including phones and tablets. While gaining support for 64-bit platforms, Android was first made to run on 64-bit x86 and then on ARM64. Since Android5.0 Lollipop, 64-bit variants of all platforms are supported in addition to the 32-bit variants.


title: Android version history

text: Requirements for the minimum amount of RAM for devices running Android 7.1 depend on screen size and density and type of CPU, ranging from 816MB–1.8GB for 64-bit and 512MB–1.3GB for 32-bit meaning in practice 1GB for the most common type of display (while minimum for Android watch is 416MB). The recommendation for Android4.4 is to have at least 512MB of RAM, while for "low RAM" devices 340MB is the required minimum amount that does not include memory dedicated to various hardware components such as the baseband processor. Android 4.4 requires a 32-bit ARMv7, MIPS or x86 architecture processor, together with an OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible graphics processing unit (GPU). Android supports OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.2 and since Android 7.0 Vulkan (and version 1.1 available for some devices). Some applications may explicitly require a certain version of the OpenGL ES, and suitable GPU hardware is required to run such applications. In 2021, Android was ported to RISC-V. In 2021, Qualcomm said it will support more updates.


title: Sophie Turner

text: Sophie Belinda Jonas (née Turner; born 21 February 1996) is an English actress. Turner made her acting debut as Sansa Stark on the HBO epic fantasy television series "Game of Thrones" (2011–2019), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2019.


title: Sophie Turner

text: She appeared in the television film "The Thirteenth Tale" (2013) and made her feature film debut in "Another Me" (2013). She appeared in the action comedy "Barely Lethal" (2015) and portrayed a young Jean Grey / Phoenix in the "X-Men" film series (2016–2019).


title: Sophie Turner

text: Sophie Belinda Turner was born in Northampton, England on 21 February 1996, the daughter of Sally, a nursery school teacher, and Andrew, who works for a pallet distribution company. She moved to Chesterton, Warwickshire when she was 2 years old. She attended Warwick Prep School until she was 11, and later attended the independent The King's High School for Girls. Turner has been a member of the Playbox Theatre Company since she was 3 years old. She has two older brothers. Her twin died in utero.


title: Sophie Turner

text: She grew up in a large Edwardian house, near Leamington Spa, saying, "My childhood was pretty fun. We had pigsties, barns and a paddock, and used to muck around in the mud." Turner had a tutor on the set of "Game of Thrones" until age 16. She achieved five GCSE A-grades and four Bs, including a B in Drama.


title: Sophie Turner

text: Turner was cast as Sansa Stark, a young noblewoman, in the HBO fantasy drama series "Game of Thrones" in August 2009. Filming began in July 2010, when Turner was 14 years old. Sansa was Turner's first television role. Turner's drama teacher encouraged her to audition for the part, and she dyed her blonde hair auburn for the role, although in Season 7 she began wearing wigs. In 2012, she was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series – Supporting Young Actress for her performance as Sansa, alongside her on-screen sister, Maisie Williams. Turner appeared in all eight broadcast seasons.


title: Sophie Turner

text: In 2013, she had her first movie role as the lead character in the independent thriller film "Another Me", based on the novel of the same name by Catherine MacPhail. She starred as Adeline March in the 2013 television film "The Thirteenth Tale".


title: Sophie Turner

text: In 2013, she was cast in the comedy film "Barely Lethal", alongside Hailee Steinfeld, which was released on 29 May 2015 in a limited release and through video on demand. Turner also narrated the audiobook version of the Lev Grossman short story "The Girl in the Mirror", which was included in the short fiction anthology "Dangerous Women" and was edited by George R. R. Martin. In 2014, she narrated the audiobook "City of Heavenly Fire" by Cassandra Clare. The same year, she was the face of Karen Millen's "The Journey" campaign. Turner played mutant Jean Grey in "", which was released in May 2016 to mixed critical success.


title: Sophie Turner

text: During summer 2016, she hosted the web video "Powershift" in partnership with the "Huffington Post". In March 2017, she announced she had become patron of Women for Women, an organisation that supports female war survivors. In August 2017, Turner said she believed her social media following was responsible for her successful casting in an unnamed project rather than her abilities as an actress, saying, "[I]t was between me and another girl who is a far better actress than I am, far better, but I had the followers, so I got the job." In June 2017, she began a collaboration with Wella Hair, becoming its first international brand ambassador.


title: Sophie Turner

text: In November 2017, Turner was cast to play Juliane Koepcke in the movie "Girl Who Fell From the Sky". She is also attached to produce the movie. In March and April 2018, she filmed the independent film "Heavy" in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Turner reprised her role as Jean Grey in the "X-Men" film "Dark Phoenix", which takes place in 1992 and follows the events of "Apocalypse". The film was released in June 2019.


title: Sophie Turner

text: Turner started dating American singer Joe Jonas in 2016. They became engaged in October 2017. They were married on 1 May 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Following her marriage, Turner legally changed her last name to Jonas; the couple reside in Miami, Florida. They held a second wedding ceremony in Paris, France on 29 June 2019. The couple have two daughters, born in July 2020 and July 2022.


title: Sophie Turner

text: Turner was the inspiration behind the song "Hesitate", which was written as a love letter to her by Jonas, for the Jonas Brothers reunion album, "Happiness Begins".


title: Sting (musician)

text: Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician and actor. He was the frontman, songwriter and bassist for new wave rock band The Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music.


title: Sting (musician)

text: As a solo musician and a member of The Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards: he won Song of the Year for "Every Breath You Take", three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution in 2002, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2019, he received a BMI Award for "Every Breath You Take" becoming the most-played song in radio history. In 2002, Sting 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. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Police in 2003. In 2000, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording. In 2003, Sting received a CBE from Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for services to music. He was made a Kennedy Center Honoree at the White House in 2014 and was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2017.


title: Sting (musician)

text: With The Police, Sting became one of the world's best-selling music artists. Solo and with the Police combined, he has sold over 100 million records. In 2006, "Paste" ranked him 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters. He was 63rd of VH1's 100 greatest artists of rock, and 80th of "Q" magazine's 100 greatest musical stars of the 20th century. He has collaborated with other musicians on songs such as "Money for Nothing" with Dire Straits, "Rise & Fall" with Craig David, "All for Love" with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, "You Will Be My Ain True Love" with Alison Krauss, and introduced the North African music genre raï to Western audiences through the hit song "Desert Rose" with Cheb Mami. In 2018, he released the album "44/876", a collaboration with Jamaican musician Shaggy, which won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 2019.


title: Sting (musician)

text: Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born at Sir G B Hunter Memorial Hospital in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, on 2 October 1951, the eldest of four children of Audrey (née Cowell), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, a milkman and engineer. He grew up near Wallsend's shipyards, which made an impression on him. As a child, he was inspired by the Queen Mother waving at him from a Rolls-Royce to divert from the shipyard prospect towards a more glamorous life. He helped his father deliver milk and by ten was "obsessed" with an old Spanish guitar left by an emigrating friend of his father.


title: Sting (musician)

text: He attended St Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne. He visited nightclubs such as Club A'Gogo to see Cream and Manfred Mann, who influenced his music. After leaving school in 1969, he enrolled at the University of Warwick in Coventry, but left after a term. After working as a bus conductor, building labourer and tax officer, he attended the Northern Counties College of Education (now Northumbria University) from 1971 to 1974 and qualified as a teacher. He taught at St Paul's First School in Cramlington for two years.


title: Sting (musician)

text: Sting performed jazz in the evening, weekends and during breaks from college and teaching, playing with the Phoenix Jazzmen, Newcastle Big Band and Last Exit. He gained his nickname after his habit of wearing a black and yellow jumper with hooped stripes with the Phoenix Jazzmen. Bandleader Gordon Solomon thought he looked like a bee (or according to Sting himself, "they thought I looked like a wasp"), which prompted the name "Sting". In the 1985 documentary "Bring On the Night" a journalist called him Gordon, to which he replied, "My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, who is this Gordon character?" In 2011, he told "Time" that "I was never called Gordon. You could shout 'Gordon' in the street and I would just move out of your way".


title: Sting (musician)

text: In January 1977, Sting moved from Newcastle to London and joined Stewart Copeland and Henry Padovani (soon replaced by Andy Summers) to form the Police. From 1978 to 1983, they had five UK chart-topping albums, won six Grammy Awards and won two Brit Awards (for Best British Group and for Outstanding Contribution to Music). Their initial sound was punk-inspired, but they switched to reggae rock and minimalist pop. Their final album, "Synchronicity", was nominated for five Grammy Awards including Album of the Year in 1983. It included their most successful song, "Every Breath You Take", written by Sting.


title: Sting (musician)

text: According to Sting, appearing in the documentary "Last Play at Shea", he decided to leave the Police while onstage during a concert of 18 August 1983 at Shea Stadium in New York City because he felt that playing that venue was "[Mount] Everest". While never formally breaking up, after "Synchronicity", the group agreed to concentrate on solo projects. As the years went by, the band members, especially Sting, dismissed the possibility of reforming. In 2007, however, the band did reform and undertook The Police Reunion Tour.


title: Sting (musician)

text: Four of the band's five studio albums appeared on "Rolling Stone's" list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and two of the band's songs, "Every Breath You Take" and "Roxanne", each written by Sting, appeared on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In addition, "Every Breath You Take" and "Roxanne" were among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2003, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They were also included in "Rolling Stone's" and VH1's lists of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".


title: Sting (musician)

text: In 1978, Sting collaborated with members of Hawkwind and Gong as the Radio Actors on the one-off single "Nuclear Waste". In September 1981, Sting made his first live solo appearance, on all four nights of the fourth Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman's Other Ball in London's Drury Lane theatre at the invitation of producer Martin Lewis. He performed solo versions of "Roxanne" and "Message in a Bottle". He also led an all-star band (dubbed "the Secret Police") on his own arrangement of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released". The band and chorus included Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, all of whom (except Beck) later worked on Live Aid. His performances were in the album and movie of the show. "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball" began his growing involvement in political and social causes. In 1982 he released a solo single, "Spread a Little Happiness" from the film of the Dennis Potter television play "Brimstone and Treacle". The song was a reinterpretation of the 1920s musical "Mr. Cinders" by Vivian Ellis and a Top 20 hit in the UK.


title: Sting (musician)

text: His first solo album, 1985's "The Dream of the Blue Turtles", featured jazz musicians including Kenny Kirkland, Darryl Jones, Omar Hakim and Branford Marsalis. It included the hit singles "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" (backed with the non-LP song "Another Day"), "Fortress Around Your Heart", "Love Is the Seventh Wave" and "Russians", the latter of which was based on a theme from the "Lieutenant Kijé Suite". Within a year, the album reached Triple Platinum. The album received Grammy nominations for Album of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance and Best Engineered Recording.


title: Sting (musician)

text: In November 1984, Sting was part of Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", which raised money for famine victims in Ethiopia. Released in June 1985, Sting sang the line "I Want My MTV" on "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits. In July 1985, Sting performed Police hits at the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium in London. He also joined Dire Straits in "Money for Nothing" and he sang two duets with Phil Collins. In 1985, Sting provided spoken vocals for the Miles Davis album "You're Under Arrest", taking the role of a French-speaking police officer. He also sang backing vocals on Arcadia's single "The Promise", on two songs from Phil Collins' album "No Jacket Required", and contributed "Mack the Knife" to the Hal Willner-produced tribute album "". In September 1985, he performed "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in New York. The 1985 film "Bring On the Night", directed by Michael Apted, documented the formation of his solo band and its first concert in France.


title: Sting (musician)

text: Sting released "...Nothing Like the Sun" in 1987, including singles, "We'll Be Together", "Fragile", "Englishman in New York" and "Be Still My Beating Heart", dedicated to his mother, who had recently died. It went Double Platinum. "The Secret Marriage" from this album was adapted from Hanns Eisler and "Englishman in New York" was about Quentin Crisp. The album's title is from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. The album won Best British Album at the 1988 Brit Awards and in 1989 received three Grammy nominations including his second consecutive nomination for Album of the Year. "Be Still My Beating Heart" earned nominations for Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. In 1989, "...Nothing Like the Sun" was ranked number 90 and his Police album "Synchronicity" was ranked number 17 on "Rolling Stone"s 100 greatest albums of the 1980s.


title: Sting (musician)

text: In February 1988, he made "Nada como el sol", four songs from "Nothing like the Sun" he sang in Spanish and Portuguese. In 1987, jazz arranger Gil Evans placed him in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs, and on Frank Zappa's 1988 "Broadway the Hard Way" he performed an arrangement of "Murder by Numbers", set to "Stolen Moments" by Oliver Nelson and dedicated to evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. In October 1988 he recorded a version of Igor Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale" with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Kent Nagano. It featured Vanessa Redgrave, Ian McKellen, Gianna Nannini and Sting as the soldier.


title: Sting (musician)

text: His 1991 album, "The Soul Cages", was dedicated to his late father. It included "All This Time" and the Grammy-winning title track. The album went Platinum. The album also included an Italian version of "Mad About You". The text was written by his friend Zucchero Fornaciari. The song was then included in "Overdose d'amore/The Ballads" (1999) and in "Zu & Co." (2004) of the Italian bluesman. The following year, he married Trudie Styler and was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from Northumbria University. In 1991, he appeared on "". He performed "Come Down in Time" for the album, which also features other popular artists and their renditions of John/Taupin songs.


title: Sting (musician)

text: Sting's fourth album "Ten Summoner's Tales" peaked at two in the UK and US album charts in 1993 and went triple platinum in just over a year. The album was recorded at his Elizabethan country home, Lake House in Wiltshire. "Ten Summoner's Tales" was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1993 and for the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1994. The title is a wordplay on his surname, Sumner and "The Summoner's Tale", one of "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer. Hit singles on the album include "Fields of Gold", a song inspired by the barley fields next to his Wiltshire home, with the music video featuring a silhouette of Sting walking through a village containing common features seen throughout the UK during that time such as a red telephone box and "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You", the latter earning his second award for best male pop singer at the 36th Grammy Awards.


title: Sting (musician)

text: In May 1993, he covered his own Police song from the "Ghost in the Machine" album, "Demolition Man", for the "Demolition Man" film. With Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, Sting performed "All for Love" for the film "The Three Musketeers". The song stayed at the top of the U.S. charts for three weeks, topped multiple other charts worldwide and reached number two in the UK. In February, he won two Grammy Awards and was nominated for three more. Berklee College of Music awarded him his second honorary doctorate of music in May. In November, he released the compilation, "Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting", which was certified Double Platinum. That year, he sang with Vanessa Williams on "Sister Moon" and appeared on her album "The Sweetest Days". At the 1994 Brit Awards in London, he was Best British Male.


title: Sting (musician)

text: Sting's 1996 album, "Mercury Falling" debuted strongly, with the single "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" reaching No. 15 in the UK Singles Chart, but the album soon dropped from the charts. He reached the UK Top 40 with two further singles the same year with "You Still Touch Me" (#27 in June) and "I Was Brought To My Senses" (#31 in December). The song "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" from this album also became a US country music hit in 1997 in a version with Toby Keith. Sting recorded music for the Disney film "Kingdom of the Sun", which was reworked into "The Emperor's New Groove". The film's overhauls and plot changes were documented by Sting's wife, Trudie Styler, as the changes resulted in some songs not being used.


title: Sting (musician)

text: Also in 1996, he sang for the Tina Turner single "On Silent Wings" as a part of her "Wildest Dreams" album. In the same year, his performance with the Brazilian composer/artist Tom Jobim in "How Insensitive" was in the AIDS benefit album "Red Hot + Rio" produced by the Red Hot Organization. Sting cooperated with Greek singer George Dalaras in a concert in Athens. "Moonlight", a rare jazz performance by Sting for the 1995 remake of "Sabrina", written by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and John Williams, was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television. On 4 September 1997, Sting performed "I'll Be Missing You" with Puff Daddy at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards in tribute to Notorious B.I.G. On 15 September 1997, Sting appeared at the "Music for Montserrat" concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, performing with fellow English artists Paul McCartney, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and Mark Knopfler.


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text: A period of relative musical inactivity followed from 1997, before Sting eventually re-emerged in September 1999, with a new album "Brand New Day", which gave him two more UK Top 20 hits in the title track "Brand New Day" (a UK No. 13 hit featuring Stevie Wonder on harmonica) and "Desert Rose" (a UK No. 15 hit). The album went Triple Platinum by January 2001. In 2000, he won Grammy Awards for "Brand New Day" and the song of the same name. At the awards ceremony, he performed "Desert Rose" with his collaborator on the album version, Cheb Mami.


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text: In 2000, the soundtrack for "The Emperor's New Groove" was released with complete songs from the previous version of the film. The final single used to promote the film, "My Funny Friend and Me", was Sting's first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Song.


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text: In February 2001, he won another Grammy for "She Walks This Earth (Soberana Rosa)" on "A Love Affair: The Music Of Ivan Lins". His "After the Rain Has Fallen" made it into the Top 40. His next project was a live album at his villa in Figline Valdarno, released as a CD and DVD as well as being broadcast on the internet. The CD and DVD were to be entitled "On Such a Night" and intended to feature re-workings of Sting favourites such as "Roxanne" and "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free". The concert, scheduled for 11 September 2001, was altered due to the terrorist attacks in America that day. The webcast shut after one song (a reworked version of "Fragile"), after which Sting let the audience decide whether to continue the show. They decided to go ahead and the album and DVD appeared in November as "...All This Time", dedicated "to all those who lost their lives on that day". He performed "Fragile" with Yo-Yo Ma and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, US.


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text: In 2002, he won a Golden Globe Award for "Until..." from the film "Kate & Leopold". Written and performed by him, "Until..." was his second nomination for an Academy Award for Best Song. At the 2002 Brit Awards in February, Sting received the prize for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In May 2002 he received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. In June he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In the Queen's Birthday Honours 2003 Sting was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire "For services to the Music Industry". At the 54th Primetime Emmy Awards in September, Sting won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety Or Music Program, for his A&E special, "Sting in Tuscany... All This Time".


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text: In 2003, Sting released "Sacred Love", a studio album featuring collaborations with hip-hop artist Mary J. Blige and sitar performer Anoushka Shankar. He and Blige won a Grammy for their duet, "Whenever I Say Your Name". The song is based on Johann Sebastian Bach's "Praeambulum 1" C-Major (BWV 924) from the Klavierbuechlein fuer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, though Sting said little about this adaptation. The album did not have the hit singles like his previous releases. In 2004, he was nominated for the third time for an Academy Award for Best Song, for "You Will Be My Ain True Love", from "Cold Mountain", sung in duet with Alison Krauss. The pair performed the song at the 76th Academy Awards.


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text: His autobiography "Broken Music" was published in October. He embarked on a "Sacred Love" tour in 2004 with performances by Annie Lennox. Sting went on the Broken Music tour, touring smaller venues, with a four-piece band, starting in Los Angeles on 28 March 2005 and ending on 14 May 2005. Sting was on the 2005 "Monkey Business" CD by hip-hop group the Black Eyed Peas, singing on "Union", which samples his "Englishman in New York". Continuing with Live Aid, he appeared at Live 8 at Hyde Park, London in July 2005.


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text: In 2006, Sting was on the Gregg Kofi Brown album, with "Lullaby to an Anxious Child" produced and arranged by Lino Nicolosi and Pino Nicolosi of Nicolosi Productions.


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text: In October 2006, he released an album entitled "Songs from the Labyrinth" featuring the music of John Dowland (an Elizabethan-era composer) and accompaniment from Bosnian lute player Edin Karamazov. Sting's interpretation of this English Renaissance composer and his cooperation with Edin Karamazov brought recognition in classical music. As promotion of this album, he appeared on the fifth episode of "Studio 60" to perform a segment of Dowland's "Come Again" as well as his own "Fields of Gold" in arrangement for voice and two archlutes.


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text: On 11 February 2007, he reunited with Police to open the 2007 Grammy Awards, singing "Roxanne", and announced The Police Reunion Tour, the first concert of which was in Vancouver on 28 May 2007 for 22,000 fans. The Police toured for more than a year, beginning with North America and crossing to Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Tickets for the British tour sold out within 30 minutes, the band playing two nights at Twickenham Stadium, southwest London on 8 and 9 September 2007. The last concert was at Madison Square Garden on 7 August 2008, during which his three daughters appeared with him. Toronto documentary producer Vanessa Dylyn, who was producing a film called "The Musical Brain", featuring neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, approached Sting about the film. Sting was interested in having his brain scanned while different music was played. "Brand New Day" was the final song of the night for the "Neighborhood Ball", one of ten inaugural balls honouring President Barack Obama on Inauguration Day, 20 January 2009. Sting was joined by Stevie Wonder on harmonica.


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text: Sting entered the studio in early February 2009 to begin work on a new album, "If on a Winter's Night...", released in October 2009. Initial reviews by fans that had access to early promotional copies were mixed, and some questioned Sting's artistic direction with this album. In 2009, Sting appeared at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concert, playing "Higher Ground" and "Roxanne" with Stevie Wonder and "People Get Ready" with Jeff Beck. Sting himself was inducted in 2003, as a member of the Police.


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text: In October 2009, Sting played a concert in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, for an arts and cultural festival organised by the Forum of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan Foundation. Despite claiming he thought the concert was sponsored by UNICEF, he faced criticism in the press for receiving a payment of between one and two million pounds from Uzbek president Islam Karimov for the performance. Karimov is accused by the UN and Amnesty of human rights abuses and UNICEF stated they had no connection with the event.


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text: In 2010–2011, Sting continued his Symphonicity Tour, touring South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South America and Europe. In the second half of 2011, Sting began his Back to Bass Tour, which would continue (with periodic breaks) through 2013. In October 2010, Sting played two concerts in Arnhem, Netherlands, for "Symphonica in Rosso". In 2011, "Time" magazine named Sting one of the 100 most influential people in the world. On 26 April he performed "Every Breath You Take", "Roxanne" and "Desert Rose" at the Time 100 Gala in New York City.


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text: Sting recorded a song called "Power's Out" with Nicole Scherzinger. The song, originally recorded in 2007, was to have been included on Scherzinger's shelved album "". The song was released on Scherzinger's 2011 debut album "Killer Love". Sting recorded a new version of the song "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" as a duet with "Glee" actor/singer Matthew Morrison, which appears on Morrison's 2011 eponymous debut album. On 15 September 2011, Sting performed "Fragile" at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, to honour the memory of his friend, financier-philanthropist Herman Sandler, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.


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text: For several years, Sting worked on a musical, "The Last Ship", inspired by Sting's own childhood experiences and the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend. "The Last Ship" tells a story about the demise of the British shipbuilding industry in 1980s Newcastle and debuted in Chicago in June 2014 before transferring to Broadway in the autumn. Sting's eleventh studio album, titled "The Last Ship" and inspired by the play, was released on 24 September 2013. The album features guest artists with roots in northeast England, including Brian Johnson, vocalist from AC/DC.


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text: In February 2014, Sting embarked on a joint concert tour titled On Stage Together with Paul Simon, playing 21 concerts in North America. The tour continued in early 2015, with ten shows in Australia and New Zealand, and 23 concerts in Europe, ending on 18 April 2015. On 26 June 2015 in Bergen, Norway (at the Bergen Calling Festival), Sting embarked on a 21-date Summer 2015 solo tour of Europe in Trondheim, Norway (at the Olavsfestdagene), visiting Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Sweden.


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text: On 28 August 2015, "Stolen Car", a duet with French singer Mylène Farmer was released. It is a cover from Sting's 2003 seventh solo studio album "Sacred Love" and will serve as the first single from Farmer's tenth studio album, "Interstellaires". On its release, the song went straight to number 1 over French iTunes music download charts, subsequently hitting number 1 on the main French singles chart and giving Sting his first number 1 in France. In 2016, Sting performed a 19-date joint concert summer tour of North America with Peter Gabriel.


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text: On 18 July 2016, Sting's first rock album in many years was announced. "57th & 9th" was released on 11 November 2016. The title is a reference to the New York City intersection he crossed every day to get to the studio where much of the album was recorded. It has contributions by long-time band members Vinnie Colaiuta and Dominic Miller, and Jerry Fuentes and Diego Navaira of the Last Bandoleros. The album was produced by Sting's manager, Martin Kierszenbaum. On 9 November 2016, Sting performed two shows at Irving Plaza, in Manhattan, New York City, playing songs from "57th & 9th" for the first time live in concert: a "57th & 9th iHeartRadio Album Release Party" show and a Sting Fan Club Member Exclusive Show later that night. Named the 57th & 9th Tour, a world tour of theatres, clubs and arenas in support of "57th & 9th" (with special guests Joe Sumner and the Last Bandoleros) began on 1 February 2017 in Vancouver at the Commodore Ballroom and continued into October.


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text: On 4 November 2016, management of the Bataclan theatre announced that Sting would perform an exclusive concert in Paris on 12 November 2016 for the re-opening of the Bataclan, a year after the terrorist attack at the venue. The Police's former guitar player, French native Henry Padovani, joined the band on stage for "Next to You", one of the encores.


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text: Sting was announced as the joint winner of the 2017 Polar Music Prize, a Swedish international award given in recognition of excellence in the world of music. The award committee stated: "As a composer, Sting has combined classic pop with virtuoso musicianship and an openness to all genres and sounds from around the world." In 2018, he scheduled a musical and story-telling performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art honouring Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole.


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text: On 7 February 2018, Sting performed as special guest at the Italian Sanremo Music Festival, singing "Muoio per te", the Italian version of "Mad About You", the lyrics of which were written by his friend and colleague Zucchero Fornaciari and "Don't Make Me Wait" with Shaggy. "44/876", Sting and Shaggy's first studio album as a duo,<ref name="Sting Shaggy 44/876"></ref> was released in April 2018. On 21 April 2018, Sting was among the artists to perform at The Queen's Birthday Party held at the Royal Albert Hall.


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text: Sting's fourteenth album, titled "My Songs", was released on 24 May 2019. The album features 14 studio (and one live) re-recorded versions of his songs released throughout his solo career and his time with the Police. In support of the album, a world tour named the My Songs Tour started on 28 May 2019 at La Seine Musicale in Paris and ended on 2 September 2019 at Kit Carson Park in Taos, New Mexico. A 16-date residency from 22 May to 2 September 2020 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada was rescheduled due to COVID-19, with the first date taking place on 29 October 2021. His 6 nights at the London Palladium were rescheduled to April 2022.


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text: On 14 April 2020, Sting recorded a duet cover of "Message in a Bottle" with the girl group All Saints. The same year, he appeared on the song "Simple" available on the EP "Pausa" by Ricky Martin.


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text: On 19 March 2021, Sting released "Duets", a compilation album comprising 17 tracks of collaborations with various artists including Eric Clapton, Mary J. Blige, Shaggy, Annie Lennox and Sam Moore. However, several titles as "Simple" in performance with Ricky Martin, "Message in a Bottle" with All Saints, "Spirits" with Pato Banton from the film "" and "Always on Your Side" in duet with Sheryl Crow, are not included in the album.


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text: Sting released his fifteenth studio album "The Bridge" on 19 November 2021. It was preceded by the release of the lead single "If It's Love" on 1 September 2021. Sting wrote the set of pop-rock songs "in a year of global pandemic, personal loss, separation, disruption, lockdown and extraordinary social and political turmoil". On 20 November 2021, Sting's single "What Could Have Been", with Ray Chen, was featured in the third act of the "League of Legends" animated series "Arcane"; this single was released the same day. Sting then opened The Game Awards 2021 with the song; Todd Marten, for the "Los Angeles Times", wrote "The Game Awards began this year with an opening that might have launched the Grammy Awards".


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text: In February 2022, it was announced that Universal Music Group purchased Sting's catalogue of solo works and those with The Police for an undisclosed amount.


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text: In February 2022, Sting collaborated with Swedish DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia, releasing a song and music video titled "Redlight". The song used lyrics from The Police's 1979 hit "Roxanne" with a dark electronic feeling. Sting made an appearance in the music video, the song being part of the new album from Swedish House Mafia titled "Paradise Again".


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text: Sting's involvement in human rights began in September 1981, when Martin Lewis included him in the fourth Amnesty International gala, "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball", a benefit show co-founded by Monty Python member John Cleese. Sting states, "before [the Ball] I did not know about Amnesty, I did not know about its work, I did not know about torture in the world." Following the example set at the 1979 show by Pete Townshend, Sting performed "Roxanne" and "Message in a Bottle" appearing on all four nights at Theatre Royal in London. He also led other musicians ("The Secret Police") including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Donovan, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in the finale – Sting's reggae-tinged arrangement of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released". The event was the first time that Sting worked with Geldof. His association with Amnesty continued throughout the 1980s and beyond and he took part in Amnesty's human rights concerts.


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text: Sting had shown his interest in social and political issues in his 1980 song "Driven to Tears", an indictment of apathy to world hunger. In November 1984, he joined Band Aid, a charity supergroup primarily made up of the biggest British and Irish musicians of the era, and sang on "Do They Know It's Christmas?" which was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London. This led to the Live Aid concert in July 1985 at Wembley Stadium, in which Sting performed with Phil Collins and Dire Straits. On 2 July 2005, Sting performed at the Live 8 concert at Hyde Park, London, the follow-up to 1985's Live Aid. In 1984, Sting sang a re-worded version of "Every Breath You Take", titled "Every Bomb You Make" for episode 12 of the first series of the British satirical puppet show "Spitting Image". The video for the song shows the puppets of world leaders and political figures of the day, usually with the figure matching the altered lyrics.


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text: In June 1986, Sting reunited with the Police for the last three shows of Amnesty's six-date A Conspiracy of Hope concerts in the US. The day after the final concert, he told NBC's "Today Show": "I've been a member of Amnesty and a support member for five years." In 1988, he joined musicians including Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen for a six-week Human Rights Now! tour commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.


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text: With his wife, Trudie Styler and Raoni Metuktire, a Kayapo Indian leader in Brazil, Sting founded the Rainforest Foundation Fund to help save the rainforests and protect indigenous peoples there. In 1989, he flew to the Altamira Gathering to offer support while promoting his charity. His support continues and includes an annual benefit concert at Carnegie Hall, which has featured Billy Joel, Elton John, James Taylor and others. A species of Colombian tree frog, "Dendropsophus stingi", was named after him for his "commitment and efforts to save the rainforest". In 1988, the single "They Dance Alone (Cueca Sola)" chronicled the plight of the mothers, wives and daughters of the "disappeared", political opponents killed by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.


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text: On 15 September 1997, Sting joined Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Phil Collins and Mark Knopfler at London's Royal Albert Hall for Music for Montserrat, a benefit for the Caribbean island devastated by a volcano. Sting and Styler were awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award in Sherborn, Massachusetts, on 30 June 2000. In September 2001, Sting took part in "" singing "Fragile" to raise money for families of victims of the 9/11 attacks in the US. In February 2005, Sting performed the Leeuwin Estate Concert Series in Western Australia: the concert raised $4 million for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami relief.


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text: In 2007, Sting joined Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland for the closing set at the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Joined by John Mayer and Kanye West, Sting and the Police ended the show singing "Message in a Bottle" In 2008 Sting contributed to "" to support Tibet and the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. On 22 January 2010, Sting performed "Driven to Tears" during "". On 25 April 2010, he performed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in the 40th anniversary celebration of Earth Day. Sting is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. In 2010, he became a Patron of the poverty alleviation and beekeeping charity Bees for Development.


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text: In 2011, Sting joined more than 30 others in an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron for "immediate decriminalisation of drug possession" if a policy review showed it had failed. Sting was quoted: "Giving young people criminal records for minor drug possession serves little purpose — it is time to think of more imaginative ways of addressing drug use in our society."


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text: On 4 July 2011, Sting cancelled a concert for the Astana Day Festival in Astana, Kazakhstan. Amnesty International convinced him to cancel due to concerns over the rights of Kazakh oil and gas workers and their families. On 2 November 2012, Sting appeared on "" and sang a version of "Message in a Bottle" to raise funds for those affected by a storm on the east coast of the US that week. The show reportedly raised $23 million. Sting also participated as a co-host and musician during the day-long 2015 Norwegian TV campaign, dedicated to the preservation of the rainforest.


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text: In August 2014, Sting was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to "The Guardian" expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to reject Scottish independence from the UK in September's referendum on the issue.


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text: Sting publicly opposed Brexit and supported remaining in the European Union. On 23 June 2016, in a non-binding referendum, the British public voted to leave. In October 2018, Sting was among a group of British musicians who signed an open letter sent to then Prime Minister Theresa May, drafted by Bob Geldof, calling for "a 2nd vote", stating that Brexit will "impact every aspect of the music industry. From touring to sales, to copyright legislation to royalty collation", the letter added: "We dominate the market and our bands, singers, musicians, writers, producers and engineers work all over Europe and the world and, in turn, Europe and the world come to us. Why? Because we are brilliant at it ... [Our music] reaches out, all inclusive, and embraces anyone and everyone. And that truly is what Britain is."


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text: In January 2018, it was reported that Sting had joined the board of advisors of an impact investing fund of JANA Partners LLC named JANA Impact Capital, aimed at serving environmental and social causes. On 6 January 2018, JANA Partners, together with the California State Teachers' Retirement System issued a public letter imploring Apple Inc. to take a more responsible approach towards smartphone addiction among children. The letter cited several pieces of evidence that show that smartphone use by children increases the risk of their having mental health problems and worsens academic performance.


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text: Sting married actress Frances Tomelty on 1 May 1976. They had two children: Joseph (b. 23 Nov 1976), and Fuschia Katherine "Kate" (b. 17 Apr 1982) Sumner. In 1980, Sting became a tax exile in Galway, Ireland. In 1982, after the birth of his second child, he separated from Tomelty. Tomelty and Sting divorced in 1984 following Sting's affair with actress Trudie Styler. The split was controversial; as "The Independent" reported in 2006, Tomelty "just happened to be Trudie's best friend (Sting and Frances lived next door to Trudie in Bayswater, west London, for several years before the two of them became lovers)".


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text: Sting married Styler at Camden Registry Office on 20 August 1992, and the couple had their wedding blessed two days later in the twelfth-century parish church of St Andrew in Great Durnford, Wiltshire, south-west England. Sting and Styler have four children: Brigitte Michael “Mickey” (b. 19 Jan 1984), Jake (b. 24 May 1985), Eliot Paulina "Coco" (b. 30 Jul 1990), and Giacomo Luke (b. 17 Dec 1995) Sumner. Coco is founder and lead singer of the group I Blame Coco. Giacomo Luke is the inspiration behind the name of Kentucky Derby-winning horse Giacomo.


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text: In April 2009, the "Sunday Times Rich List" estimated Sting's wealth at £175million and ranked him the 322nd wealthiest person in Britain. A decade later, Sting was estimated to have a fortune of £320million in the 2019 "Sunday Times Rich List", making him one of the ten wealthiest people in the British music industry.


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text: Both of Sting's parents died of cancer: his mother in 1986 and his father in 1987. He did not attend either funeral, in order not to draw media attention to them.


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text: In 1995, Sting gave evidence in court against his former accountant (Keith Moore), who had misappropriated £6 million of his money. Moore was jailed for six years. Sting owns several homes worldwide, including Lake House and its sixty-acre estate near Salisbury, Wiltshire; a New York City flat (which was once owned by Billy Joel) and the Villa Il Palagio estate in Figline Valdarno, Tuscany. He owned a house in Highgate, 2 The Grove for a number of years, which had previously been the former home of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin.


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text: For much of his life, Sting's spare time interests and activities have revolved around mental and physical fitness. For many years, he ran five miles (8 km) a day and also performed aerobics. He participated in running races at Parliament Hill and charity runs (including the Race Against Time for Sport Aid in both 1986 and 1988). Around 1990, Danny Paradise introduced him to yoga and he began practising the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga series, though he now practises Tantra and Jivamukti Yoga as well. He wrote a foreword to "Yoga Beyond Belief", written by Ganga White in 2007. In 2008, he was reported to practise Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation technique. He also practices pilates regularly.


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text: Sting's affinity with yoga contributed to a rumour about his sexual prowess, including a purported eight hours of sex with Styler. The story stems from an interview with Sting and Bob Geldof. A journalist asked "how do you perform in bed?" and Geldof remarked that he was a "three-minute man" but Sting could last for hours thanks to yoga.


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text: Also a keen chess player, Sting played chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in an exhibition game in 2000, along with four bandmates: Dominic Miller, Jason Rebello, Chris Botti and Russ Irwin. Kasparov beat all five simultaneously within fifty minutes.


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text: In 1969, Sting read the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake and later bought the film rights. He named pets, a racehorse, his publishing company and one of his daughters (Fuschia, in the books actually Fuchsia) after characters from the books.


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text: Sting supports his hometown Premier League football club Newcastle United and in 2009 backed a supporters' campaign against the plan of owner Mike Ashley to sell off naming rights of the club's home stadium St James' Park. He wrote a song in support of Newcastle, called "Black and White Army (Bringing The Pride Back Home)".


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text: In a 2011 interview in "Time", Sting said that he was agnostic and that the certainties of religious faith were dangerous.


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text: In August 2013, Sting donated money to The Friends of Tynemouth Outdoor Pool to regenerate the 1920s lido at the southern end of Longsands Beach in Tynemouth, northeast England, a few miles from where he was born.


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text: Sting narrated the American premiere of the musical "Yanomamo" (1983), by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon, outlining problems that existed in the Amazon rainforest. This was made into a film and later broadcast as "Song of the Forest". He also provided the voice of Zarm on the 1990s television show "Captain Planet and the Planeteers". In 1989 he starred as Macheath (Mack the Knife) in John Dexter's Broadway production of "The Threepenny Opera". Sting also appeared as himself in the video game "Guitar Hero World Tour". In 2018, Sting voiced the narrator of "Where the Water Tastes Like Wine".


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text: Wu-Tang Clan is an American hip hop group formed in Staten Island, New York City, in 1992. Its original members include RZA, GZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, and Masta Killa. Close affiliate Cappadonna later became an official member. Wu-Tang Clan are regarded as a highly influential group in hip hop, helping to popularize and develop the East Coast hip hop and hardcore hip hop styles.


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text: After signing to Steve Rifkind's label Loud Records in 1992, Wu-Tang Clan released their debut album "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" in 1993; initially receiving positive reviews, it has since garnered widespread critical acclaim and is widely considered to be one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. Members of the group released solo albums between 1994 and 1996. In 1997, the group released their second album, "Wu-Tang Forever". It debuted atop the "Billboard" 200 and was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 1998 Grammy Awards. The group later released the albums "The W" (2000), "Iron Flag" (2001), "8 Diagrams" (2007), and "A Better Tomorrow" (2014), to less popularity. The only copy of their seventh album, "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" (2015), was purchased for $2 million by former hedge fund manager and convicted felon Martin Shkreli.


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text: Wu-Tang Clan has introduced and launched the careers of a number of affiliated artists and groups, collectively known as the Wu-Tang Killa Bees. In 2008, "About" ranked Wu-Tang Clan the No. 1 greatest hip hop group of all time. Kris Ex of "Rolling Stone" called Wu-Tang Clan "the best rap group ever". In 2004, "NME" hailed them as one of the most influential groups of the last ten years.


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text: In the late 1980s, cousins Robert Diggs, Gary Grice, and Russell Jones formed a group named Force of the Imperial Master, also known as the All in Together Now Crew. Each member recorded under an alias: Diggs as Prince Rakeem or The Scientist, Grice as The Genius, and Jones as The Specialist. The group never signed to a major label, but caught the attention of the New York City rap scene and was recognized by rapper Biz Markie. By 1991, The Genius and Prince Rakeem were signed to separate record labels. The Genius released "Words from the Genius" (1991) on Cold Chillin' Records and Prince Rakeem released "Ooh I Love You Rakeem" (1991) on Tommy Boy Records. Both were soon dropped by their labels. They then adopted new monikers; The Genius became GZA (pronounced "jizza"), and Prince Rakeem became RZA (pronounced "rizza"). The Specialist also took on a new name and became known as Ol' Dirty Bastard.


title: Wu-Tang Clan

text: RZA began collaborating with Dennis Coles, later known as Ghostface Killah, another rapper from the Stapleton Houses in Staten Island. The duo decided to create a hip hop group whose ethos would be a blend of "Eastern philosophy picked up from kung fu movies, Five-Percent Nation teachings picked up on the New York streets, and comic books". Wu-Tang Clan assembled in late 1992, with RZA as the "de facto" leader and the group's producer. RZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard adopted the name for the group after the film "Shaolin and Wu Tang". The group developed backronyms for the name (as hip hop pioneers such as KRS-One and Big Daddy Kane did with their names), including "We Usually Take All Niggas' Garments", "Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game", and "Wisdom of the Universe, and the Truth of Allah for the Nation of the Gods".


title: Wu-Tang Clan

text: Wu-Tang Clan became known in 1993 following the release of the independent single "Protect Ya Neck", which helped gain the group a sizable underground following. Though there was some difficulty in finding a record label that would sign Wu-Tang Clan while still allowing each member to record solo albums with other labels, Loud/RCA finally agreed, releasing their debut album, "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)", in November 1993. The album loosely adopted a Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang theme, dividing the album into Shaolin and Wu-Tang sections. The album received critical acclaim, and to date is regarded as one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. The success of their debut album established the group as a creative and influential force in the 1990s, allowing individual members to negotiate solo contracts. RZA spoke on the Wu-Tang Clan's unorthodox business model:


title: Wu-Tang Clan

text: In 1994, RZA founded the group Gravediggaz with Prince Paul, Frukwan (both of Stetsasonic) and Poetic. In August of the same year, the group released "6 Feet Deep", which became one of the best known works to emerge from the horrorcore subgenre.


title: Wu-Tang Clan

text: RZA held the role of primary producer for the first wave of the group members' solo albums, producing out of his basement studio in Staten Island. In November 1994, Method Man's debut album, "Tical", was released. RZA's hands-on approach to "Tical" extended beyond his merely creating the beats to devising song concepts and structures. The track "All I Need" from "Tical" was the winner of the "Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group" at the 1995 Grammy Awards. Ol' Dirty Bastard's debut album, "", was released in March 1995, and is considered a hip hop classic. Raekwon's debut studio album, "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...", was released in August 1995. The album is noted for reviving the mafioso rap subgenre. "Cuban Linx" featured all but one Wu member, and featured the debut from Cappadonna. GZA's debut album, "Liquid Swords", was released in November 1995. "Liquid Swords" features guest appearances from every Wu-Tang Clan member, and is linked together by excerpts from the 1980 movie "Shogun Assassin". Ghostface Killah released his first solo album, "Ironman", in October 1996. "Ironman" was critically acclaimed and is widely considered to be one of the best of Wu-Tang solo albums.