Joe Sumner
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Joe Sumner
| image = Joe Sumner 2007 2.jpg
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| alt = Joe Sumner opening for the Police in 2007
| caption = Sumner performing with Fiction Plane in 2007
| background = solo_singer
| birth_name = Joseph Sumner
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|11|23|df=yes}}
| origin = London, England
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| genre = {{flatlist|
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| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter|musician|app developer}}
| instrument = {{flatlist|
- Vocals
- bass guitar
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| years_active = 1999–present
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Joseph Sumner (born 23 November 1976) is an English singer-songwriter and bassist for the rock band Fiction Plane, and co-founder of the company Vyclone, which made an app for recording video from multiple angles.{{cite web|last1=Valcourt|first1=Keith|title=Fiction Plane's Joe Sumner: The Sting of his family name|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/2/joe-sumner-son-sting-his-own-band-fiction-plane/|website=Washington Times|access-date=24 May 2016}}
Career
=Music=
Sumner learned to play guitar and drums when he was a teenager, and was inspired to write songs when he heard Nirvana's album Nevermind. He formed a band with a school friend, bassist Dan Brown, which eventually became Fiction Plane when it was joined by British guitarist Seton Daunt.{{cite web|last1=Henderson|first1=Alex|title=Fiction Plane {{!}} Biography & History {{!}} AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/fiction-plane-mn0000173762/biography|website=AllMusic|access-date=25 May 2016}}
Fiction Plane recorded its first album, Everything Will Never Be OK (2003), without a full-time drummer, relying instead on session musician Abe Laboriel Jr. Soon after, Fiction Plane hired drummer Pete Wilhoit, a native of Indiana.{{cite magazine|title=Fiction Plane Prepares For Takeoff|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/72413/fiction-plane-prepares-for-takeoff|magazine=Billboard|access-date=25 May 2016}}
After that album, Fiction Plane released Bitter Forces and Lame Race Horses (2005), Left Side of the Brain (2007), Paradiso (2009), Sparks (2010), and Mondo Lumina (2015). The band received much attention when it was the opening act for The Police's reunion tour in 2007.
In 2019, he released a self-titled album with the band The Euphoriants, which included Scrote and Blair Sinta. They received a good amount of airplay for their single, "Colorful Crimes."
In 2020 his song 'Hope' was performed by numerous vocalists as part of a get out the vote campaign for the Biden/Harris ticket. He put out the singles "You You You" in 2021 and "Looking For Me Looking For You" in 2022 and plans to release his first solo album, Sunshine In The Night, in autumn 2023.
= Entrepreneur =
In 2010, the day after performing a concert, Sumner found videos of the show on YouTube that fans had filmed with their smartphones. Speculating that fans' clips could be linked into an interesting compilation, he co-founded the company Vyclone with David King Lassman to create a product of the same name.
The app united social media with individual video recording. Several people could film an event simultaneously with their smartphones, then upload their clips with Vyclone software, which assembles the clips into a movie shown from multiple angles. The app invited a variety of uses beyond filming concerts.{{cite news|last1=MacMillan|first1=Douglas|title=Joe Sumner: Synchronizing Crowdsourced Movies|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-07-19/joe-sumner-synchronizing-crowdsourced-movies|website=Bloomberg|date=20 July 2012 |access-date=26 May 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Metz|first1=Rachel|title=Using Your Smart Phone to Mix Video Clips with Others|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/428279/using-your-smart-phone-to-mix-video-clips-with-others/|website=Technology Review|access-date=26 May 2016}} The app was switched off in 2016.{{Cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/07/vyclone-hits-the-deadpool/ |title=Vyclone hits the deadpool |last=Maffei |first=Lucia |date=7 July 2016 |access-date=13 March 2017}}
He is the founder of NPSL soccer team City of Angels FC.{{Cite web |url=http://www.npsl.com/news_article/show/736146?referral=rss&referrer_id=2168389 |title=City of Angels FC Joins the NPSL |access-date=22 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222035653/http://www.npsl.com/news_article/show/736146?referral=rss&referrer_id=2168389 |archive-date=22 December 2016 |url-status=dead }}
Personal life
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Joe Sumner is the son of the musician Sting and Northern Irish actress Frances Tomelty. He is the brother of Fuschia Katherine ("Kate") and half-brother of musician Eliot Sumner{{cite magazine|last1=Cohen|first1=Jonathan|title=Fiction Plane Resumes Flight With New Album|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1053156/fiction-plane-resumes-flight-with-new-album|magazine=Billboard|access-date=25 May 2016}} and actress Mickey Sumner, who are children of Sting and actress Trudie Styler.
He married on 4 December 2011. He has three daughters and one son.
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Category:21st-century English singers
Category:English rock bass guitarists
Category:British male bass guitarists
Category:English male singer-songwriters