British singer-songwriting legend Sting finds the multiple genres and streaming platforms of the modern music scene "quite odd", but still believes in the power of song to unite people.

In an interview with AFP, the 74-year-old with 17 Grammy Awards and sales of over 100 million albums also spoke about his worries about AI as a tool for repression, as well as politicians "whose idea is to separate us all".

The former frontman of The Police was speaking in Paris ahead of the French debut of his partly biographical musical "The Last Ship", which is set in his hometown of Wallsend in northeast England.

It tells the story of the de

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My entire life has been about escaping from what was offered to me. At a certain point, I realised that wh

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