Interviewee: Sting and Trudie Styler
Interviewer: Ann Curry
Date: 07 July 2007

In this rendezvous with NBC, Sting and Trudie Styler highlight their commitment to environmentalism. The British couple spoke live from New York City, where the American leg of Live Earth was happening. Live Earth was a concert event held simultaneously on seven continents in July 7, 2007 in a bid to raise awareness on the effects of climate change.

Sting and Trudie Styler are the founders of the Rainforest Foundation, dedicated to the conservation of forests and the communities therein. Originally it was launched in 1988 as an initiative to intervene in the denudation of the Amazon. The organization has now spread its operations in Africa and Asia. Trudie has organized yearly benefit concerts at the Carnegie Hall in New York City, and recorded an album in 1997 for these ends.

As a producer of such hit films as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, Trudie Styler has released socially conscious documentaries through her outfit, Xingu Films. Since 2004, Trudie has been an Ambassador for UNICEF.

On the other hand, her husband Sting, born Gordon Sumner, is more renowned as the vocalist of The Police, whose performance at Live Earth was one of their first in many years. Hits like “Every Breath You Take”, “Message in a Bottle”, “Don’t Stand So Close to Me”, and “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” kept the Police atop the charts.

Sting separated from the band in 1984 to pursue a more “intelligent rock,” as shown in his debut The Dream of the Blue Turtles. Nothing Like the Sun was next, with tracks like “Englishman In New York” and “We’ll Be Together” becoming standouts.

In 1993, Sting released one of his finest albums yet, Ten Summoner’s Tales, with chart toppers like Fields of Gold. He then collaborated with Rod Stewart and Bryan Adams to record “All for Love” for The Three Musketeers soundtrack, yielded him his first and only US number one hit.