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Improving Maternal Healthcare, One Song at a Time

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Chris Martin, Sting, Video, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, The Edge, David Legry, Dave Matthews, Paul Simon, Alanis Morissette, Edie Brickell, Global Motherhood, Patti Smith, Faith Hill, Lauryn Hill, Cedella Marley, Seal, Eddie Vedder, Rita Wilson, Starbucks, Beck, David Bowie, Rufus Wainwright, Diana Krall, Coldplay, Sade, Bono, Global Financial Crisis, Impact News

Did you know that every 90 seconds a woman dies from pregnancy-related causes? Every Mother Counts is dedicated to increasing education and support for reducing maternal mortality through programs around the world.

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For Once, a Good Pop Song Is Stuck in My Head

Michael Rugnetta | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Sting, Peter Gabriel, Gotye, Call Me Maybe, Gotye Snl, 80s, Music, Gotye Somebody That I Used to Know, Snl, Rock, 80s Music, Entertainment News

I cannot get the song "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye out of my head. It has a different sound -- especially the xylophone -- and strong lyrics that are clear and relatable.

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Meryl Streep Joins Channing Tatum For Most Random Concert Ever

Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Sting, Video, Meryl Streep Carnegie Hall, Revlon Concert for the Rainforest Fund, Channing Tatum Carnegie Hall, Meryl Streep, Channing Tatum, Slidewide, Carnegie Hall, Entertainment News

Meryl Streep and Channing Tatum will join Sting and his wife Trudie Styler’s biennial Rainforest Foundation concert at Carnegie Hall. Streep -- ...

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Police To Liberty City 'Thugs': 'This Isn't The Wild West'

The Huffington Post | Amanda McCorquodale | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Sting, Model City, Crackdown, David Magnusson, Miami News, Miami Police, Liberty Square, Liberty City, Miami Crime, Operation Perseverance, Miami News

Miami police are in the midst of an undercover crackdown on crime in the public housing project Liberty Square in the hopes of deterring violent crime...

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Trudie Styler on Rainforest Preservation and Human Spirit

Zoe Helene | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Sting, Zoe Helene, Human Spirit, Carnegie Hall, Sting & Friends? Rainforest Foundation Benefit Concert, Trudie Styler, Chris Kilham, Cosmic Sister, James D'Silva, Green News

Styler's annual The 'Sting & Friends' Rainforest Foundation Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall in New City, which marks its 23rd anniversary on April 3, is a celebration of hope and the human spirit.

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Rainforest Fund Announces 2012 Benefit Concert Lineup

Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Sting Rainforest Fund, Sting, Rainforest Fund, Funny Videos, Elton John Rainforest Fund Benefit Concert, Elton John, Rainforest Fund Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Hall, James Taylor, Revlon Concert, Video, Entertainment News

The lineup for this year's Rainforest Fund benefit concert has been announced, and the list of artists set to perform at New York City's Carnegie Hall...

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Pop Star's House Once Had Meteorite Lawn Ornament

Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Meteorite, Salisbury Museum, Sting, Open University, National History Museum, Sting Police, Sting Meteorite, Lake House Meteorite, Science News

When the English musician Sting and his wife Trudie Styler bought the Lake House estate in England's rural Wiltshire County in the early 1990s, they g...

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Grammytech 1: A Conversation With Musical Director, Engineer & Producer Phil Ramone

Mike Ragogna | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Brian Wilson, Donald Passman, Simon & Garfunkel, Lorene Michaels, Ed Koch, Madonna, Kenny Ehrlich, Foster the People, Eminem, Mike Love, Roy Halee, Sting, Paul Simon, Mike Green, The Beach Boys, Luciano Pavarotti, Bob Dylan, Glen Campbell, Billy Joel, Aretha Franklin, Mark Linnet, Rihanna, George Michael, Pierre Cossette, Taylor Swift, John Cossette, Phil Ramone, Elton John, Art Garfunkel, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

Over the next two weeks, I'm going to share a series of interviews with some of the music industry's heroes and working stiffs who literally brought you this year's awesome Grammy Awards with nary a hiccup. First up at bat is Phil Ramone.

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'Chimes of Freedom' Celebrates the Power of Music and Activism

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 04.01.2012

Amnesty International's Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan is not the first time they've tapped into the music community to raise funds and bring awareness to human rights issues.

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Does Sting Really Have 24-Hour Tantric Sex Sessions?

Spinner | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: The Police, Sting Sex, Sting Tantric Sex, String Rumours, Sting All Day Sex, Trudie Styler, Sting, Spinner, Bob Geldof, Home News

21 years ago, songwriter Bob Geldof and Sting started a long-running belief that the Police frontman could last a whole day in the sack. During an eve...

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Glee Gives Away 100% Of Proceeds From Christmas Song Remake

Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Glee Charity, Band Aid Charity Trust, Glee, Sting, Holidays, Video, Charity, Do They Know It's Christmas, One, Bob Geldof, Red, Glee Cast, Bono, Midge Ure, Impact News

While the Glee cast has remade the 1984, "Do They Know It’s Christmas?" the stars are keeping the song’s original purpose intact -- to raise money...

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Sting Believes The Apps, Not CDs, Are Our Future

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Sting, Sting Ipad, Sting 25 App, Sting Apple, Sting Cds, Sting App, Sting Apps, Cds, Culture News

Just in time to promote his new (free) app, Sting is hailing the medium as the future of music distribution. We could have told you that, Sting! Here'...

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Live & Dangerous: Great Shows This Thanksgiving

Jeff Pollack | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Mac Miller, Vince Gill, Thanksgiving, The Ting Tings, Cmt, Sting, Music, Live Music, Arts News

I tend to write these pieces about a single event or festival, but I also tend to break my own rules... For November, I decided to simply write about ...

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At 60, Sting Can Still Rock a Packed House & a Muscle Tee

Elizabeth Thorp | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: The Police, Washington DC, Sting, Concert, Rock and Roll, Entertainment News

After opening with "All This Time" backed by a 5-piece band, Sting turned on the charm by demurring, "I'm so delighted you would come out on such a cold winter's night."

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The Top 10 Post50 Rockstar Couples

Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Sting, Rod Stewart, Rockstar Couples, David Bowie, Ozzy Osbourne, Rockstar Husbands, Most Famous Rockstar Couples, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Huff/Post50 News

The rockstar stereotype brings to mind a world where groupies and youth reign, but some music legends have flipped the status-quo upside down. The...

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Undercover Newark Cop Touched Himself And Fondled Masseuse During Sting Operation

Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Sting, Newark, Massage Parlor, Massage Parlor Bust, Vice, Undercover Vice Cop, Prostitution, Sting Operation, Video, New Jersey, Newark Crime, New Jersey Crime, Vice Cop, Masseuse, Newark Sting Operation, Crime News

Police in Newark, N.J., will implement a new protocol for sting operations after an undercover vice cop pleasured himself and fondled a masseuse durin...

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Teens From Amazonia Tell Their Story In Photos

HuffingtonPost.com | Cindy Y. Rodriguez | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Photography, Sting, Rainforest Fund, Cultura, Ninos De La Amazonia, Amy Coplan, Peru, Indigenous Tribes, imagiNATIONS Activity Center, Hispanic Heritage Month, National Museum of the American Indian, Amazon Tribes, Kukuma, Indigenous People, Latino Voices News

In the summer of 2007, in a remote village of the Peruvian Amazon, six children, ages 12 to 15, received a gift -- cameras with which to document thei...

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Happy 60th Birthday, Sting! Relive His Best Musical Moments

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: The Police, Sting, 1980s Music, Pop Music, Rock Music, The Police Reunion, Sting 60th Birthday, Sting Birthday, 1980s Rock Music, 80s Music, New Wave, Huff/Post50 News

Sting may be turning 60 on Oct. 2, but the self-professed "King of Pain" shows no signs of slowing down. The Police's former frontman is ringing in t...

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A Diva Is Gone: Vesta, You'll Be Missed

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Krxa, Sting, Billboard, Long Beach, Kfi, Karel, Charles Karel Bouley, Janet Jackson, Kgo, Andrew Howard, Kjfk, Kjrb, E. J. Jackson, Advocate, Liberal, A&M Records, Gay, Huffingtonpost, Los Angeles, Wvnj, Kyns, Progressive, Radio, Vesta Williams, Vesta, green1640, Talk, Knx, San Francisco, Entertainment News

Vesta Williams was one of the greatest singers in R&B and music, period. And I was lucky enough to call her a friend. Her voice is now silenced but her drive and passion live on forever in her music and videos.

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Cut Nukes, Not Books: Sting, Sinead O'Connor, and -- Jim Morrison! -- Take a Stand on New Charity CD

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Sinead O'Connor, Sting, Yes, The Doors, Jim Morrison, Jonathan Elias, Music News, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Trudie Styler, Impact News

Unless you're an aficionado of James Bond soundtracks or the sexy Kim Basinger flick 9 1/2 Weeks, you may not know the name of composer Jonathan Elias. But you've definitely heard his music.

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Yacht Carrying 1.1 Tons Of Cocaine Seized

AP | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Cocaine Seized, Sting, Customs, Grance, Germany, Carribbean, Yacht, Drugs, Europe, Investigation, Cocaine, World News

BERLIN -- German police say authorities have intercepted a yacht carrying 1.1 tons of cocaine worth some euro42 million ($60 million) from the Caribbe...

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Sting: "Sending out an S.O.S." on Kazakh Human Rights Abuses

Martin Lewis | Posted 09.02.2011

Read More: Sting, Kazakhstan, Human Rights, July 4th, Amnesty International, World News

Apprised by Amnesty International of the latest rights abuses in Kazakhstan being inflicted on oil workers and their union leaders, Sting canceled a major concert appearance.

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What's It All About: Chatting with Pat Metheny, Jonathan Elias, and Viva Voce

Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Masters Apprentices, A View to a Kill, Sting, Nusrat Fateh, Global Zero, Gary Burton, Sinead O'Connor, Doug Martsch, Geoff Emmerick, Alan Parsons, Queen Noor, Nike, Chick Corea, Yes, Jonathan Elias, Simon Le Bon, Chaplin, Keith Jarrett, Alan Freed, Desmund Tutu, Steve Swallow, Daniel Lanois, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, 9 1/2 Weeks, Bach, Mahler, Sonic Youth, Pat Metheny, The Police, Andy Warhol, Michael Jordan, Robert Downey Jr., Herbie Hancock, Keith Haring, Duke Ellington, Alien, Jimmy Carter, Jack DeJohnette, Joni Mitchell, John Taylor, Stravinsky, Linda Manzer, Children of the Corn, Paul Simon, David GIlmour, Lady GaGa, Bud Powell, Nels Cline, Grace Jones, Miles Davis, The Beatles, John Barry, Yahoo, Lyle Mays, Charlie Chaplin, Carly Simon, Yo La Tengo, Ralph Bakshi, Duran Duran, Debussey, Salif Keita, Mtv, Mick Ronson, Prayer Cycle, Jon Anderson, Brian Blade, The Doors, Randy Newman, Alanis Morrisette, Ali Khan, Stephen Malkmus, Wes Montgomery, Gorbachov, Entertainment News

Pat Metheny's new album is titled What's It All About, which is based off a line from the song "Alfie." Since this is an unusual approach for Pat Metheny, he tracked him down to talk about it.

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LISTEN: Matthew Morrison & Sting Team Up On A Classic

AOL Music Blog | Posted on May 6th 2011 10:50AM by Contessa Gayles | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Sting, Music, Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot, Matthew Morrison, Entertainment News

'Glee's Matthew Morrison has collaborated with the legendary Sting on a remake of the Brit rocker's 'Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot' for Morrison's upcom...

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WATCH: Can Sting's Libido Save London From A Dragon?

Posted 06.03.2011

British people: they just aren't like us. That's pretty much the premise of this absurd sketch that's about all things across the pond, including B...

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