Argentine rock idol Charly García and the former leader of the British group The Police, Sting, announced on Monday a collaboration that will see the light of day in October 2025.
“I’m doing it my way,” Garcia wrote in a post shared with Sting’s official account on the social network Instagram.
The release includes a video of a still shot of a window and street light filtering into an apartment through an American blind. With the overwhelming sound of traffic in the background, the video announces, “Charly García & Sting. October 2025.”
According to the local press, the collaboration between the two would result in a joint song, which would be released during the first days of next month.
The publication of both on Instagram quickly got almost fifty thousand ‘likes’ and more than two thousand comments, including one from Sting himself, who called Garcia “brother”, and others from musicians like Fito Paez and Pedro Aznar.
During Sting’s last visit to Buenos Aires, last February, he shared with García a chat in the dressing room and then a dinner with friends.
Charly García in complicity with Sting
The meeting took place within the framework of the Sting 3.0 tour, a series of intimate shows in which the Briton reviews the greatest hits of his career in the company of guitarist Dominic Miller and drummer Chris Maas.
Throughout his career, Sting pushed the boundaries of musical innovation, with songs such as ‘Roxane’, ‘Message in a Bottle’, ‘Walking on the Moon’, ‘So Lonely’, ‘Englishman in New York’ and ‘Every Breath you Take’.
Recognized for his groundbreaking work as a solo artist and as the lead singer and songwriter of the group The Police, he won 17 Grammy Awards and sold 100 million albums worldwide.
In 1988, Sting and Garcia shared the stage on Amnesty International’s Human Rights Now tour.
García, author of historic songs such as ‘Demoliendo hoteles’, ‘Rezo por vos’ and ‘Nos siguen pegando abajo’, has dozens of studio albums behind him, among them fundamental pieces of Latin American rock such as ‘Clics modernos’ (1983) and ‘Say No More’ (1996).
Last month, reported Agencia EFE, the Argentine musician was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), which noted that “Charly García was a key figure in the Argentine, Latin American and Hispanic rock movement”.
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