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I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

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Sting
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 2
Actor
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Saint Johns
Arizona
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner
Gordon Sumner
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