Been a fan since:1979! I was thirteen years old, and I was at a birthday party. I heard a song and stopped in the middle of the room, I closed my eyes and I thought ''Wow… this is the perfect sound for my mind and my soul''. Everything was absolutely perfect. It was 'Reggatta de Blanc' (the song). The day after, I ran to buy the album, and I heard it all day! At dinner time, my poor mum, came into my room and said ''please Vania… change the album! I can’t go on with the same music”. So I started to listen to The Police, and the story goes on… I love their music, and I need it into my life. Of course, I follow their solo careers too. There is lot of my life in their music.
Favourite Sting song: Ask a Police or Sting fan, to choose a song or an album, and you’ll risk a murder! This is my thought. So I’ll choose my favourites, just for today. For my favourite Sting song I’m thinking 'Fortress Around Your Heart'. I love this song. I love the meaning of the test, the atmosphere, the sound, and I desired to hear it during the symphonicity tour.
Favourite Police song: How to choose! At this moment I'd say 'One World'. Why? Because it’s my alarm clock at six o’clock in the morning, to go to work! Now I can’t imagine a different way to rise from my bed and start a new day!
Favourite Sting album: I love all Sting’s album, of course, but I have to choose, so I say there’s a special album that takes a special place in my soul. It’s 'If On A Winter's Night'. Durham… great memories fixed in my mind.
Favourite Police album: 'Reggatta de Blanc' opened my mind. I discovered a new world.
Most memorable concert: Umbria Jazz. To see Sting and Gil Evans together on stage was unforgettable and, of course, unique!
Other favourite bands: Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Pat Metheney, U2, Coldplay, Incognito, James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Weather Report, Stanley Clarke and others, Italians too.
In your own words: When Sting was becoming a rock star, he used to say he didn’t like the cliché of the rock star, like Jim Morrison or Janis Joplin, etc. He wanted to create a new stereotype, he wanted to survive. So dear sting you got it! Love for ever, Vania.
Eliot Sumner will join the Sting 3.0 Tour for the show on October 16 at Hard Rock Live in Rockford, IL. Tickets are available from https://sting.com/pages/tour
At the recent 2026 BMI London Awards four Sting written songs were among the works recognised for hitting milestones relating to the number of performances in the US. These were 'Every Little Thing...
