Sting - Duetos (2009)

CD1:
01. Sting & Stevie Wonder - Brand New Day (Live In Asuncion Obama, 2009, USA)
02. Sting & Zucchero - Muoio Per Te
03. Sting & Ziggy Marley - One World
04. Sting & Charles Aznavour - Love Is New Everyday
05. Sting & Mary J. Blidge - Whenever I Say Your Name
06. Sting & Rod Stewart y Bryan Adams - All For Love
07. Sting & Craig David - Rise & Fall
08. Sting & Sugababes - The Shape Of My Heart
09. Sting & Youssou N'Dour - Dont Walk Away
10. Sting & Lulu - Sail On Sailor
11. Sting & Puff Daddy - I'll Be Missing You (MTV Awards)
12. Sting & Antonio Carlos Jobim - How Insensitive
13. Sting & Frank Zappa - Murder By Numbers
14. Sting & Shawn Colvin - One Day She'll Love Me
15. Sting & Chris Botti - In the Wee Small Hours

CD2:
01. Sting & Cheb Mami - Desert Rose
02. Sting & Julio Iglesias - Fragile
03. Sting & Annie Lennox - We`ll Be Together (Live)
04. Sting & Luciano Pavarotti - Panis Angelicus
05. Sting & Robert Downey Jr. - Every Breath You Take
06. Sting & Vicente Amigo - Send Your Love
07. Sting & Anoushka Shankar - The Book Of My Life
08. Sting & Toby Keith - I'M So Happy (I Can't Stop Crying)
09. Sting & Joold Holland - Seventh Son
10. Sting & Bruce Hornsby - Halcyon Days
11. Sting & Ruben Blades - I Can't Tell
12. Sting & Andy Summers - Round Midnight
13. Sting & Sheryl Crow - Always On Your Side
14. Sting & Herbie Hancock - Sister Moon
15. Sting & Tony Bennet - The Boulevard Of Broken Dreas

“Sting and Shaggy Know You’re Confused” read a headline in Forbes when the former Police frontman and reggae mainstay released a collaborative album 44/876, in 2018. From a bird’s-eye view, the pair’s collaboration seemed unlikely, with Sting and The Police being at the forefront of Britain’s 1980s new wave movement and Shaggy being synonymous with a 2000s single about denying infidelity. And yet, anyone intimately familiar with Sting — both as a solo artist and leader of The Police — knows of his decades-long history melding sounds, dabbling in everything from rock to jazz, new-age, the West African raï genre, classical, reggae — the list goes on.

Now, all of Sting‘s decade-spanning collaborations, starting from the early 1990s and up to the present, have been placed together in a wonderful compilation, simply titled Duets, featuring recordings with Mary J. Blige (“Whenever I Say Your Name”), Herbie Hancock (“My Funny Valentine”), Eric Clapton (“It’s Probably Me”), Annie Lennox (“We’ll Be Together”), Charles Aznavour (“L’amour C’est COmme Un Jour”), Mylène Farmer (“Stolen Car”), Shaggy (“Don’t Make Me Wait”), Melody Gardot (“Little Something”), Cheb Mami (“Desert Rose”), and more.

It’s a welcome opportunity to revisit Sting‘s lengthy collaborative resume; if anything, Duets serves as a reminder that not only has the man been doing this for a long time, but when he does team up with a new artist, he strikes just the right balance in letting the featured player shine, and letting the song belong to them as well.

It is generally known that Sting likes to collaborate with artists from all over the map, literally and from a genre perspective. But the point is driven home on Duets and should clear up any so-called “confusion” casual listeners might have the next time he drops a joint effort. ---Rachel Brodsky, independent.co.uk

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