{"id":105420,"date":"2018-08-29T22:48:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T02:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/?p=105420"},"modified":"2018-08-30T21:05:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T01:05:19","slug":"robert-downey-jr-and-sting-driven-to-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/robert-downey-jr-and-sting-driven-to-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr and Sting &#8211; Driven To Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though he&#8217;s had many roles where he sang, I&#8217;m surprised that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000375\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Downey Jr<\/a> is an amazing singer, and not just an actor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After his earlier drug-related problems that eventually led to arrests, rehab visits and incarcerations, (and his firing from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0118254\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ally McBeal<\/a> in &#8217;97), he began rebuilding his career clean and sober.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, in 2004, under the Sony Classics label, his album &#8220;<em>The Futurist<\/em>&#8221; debuted his music career. Since that time, he&#8217;s focused mainly on acting, however he&#8217;s been known to appear on stage a few times with some very big names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=echoingwalls-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B0043Z9OCS&amp;asins=B0043Z9OCS&amp;linkId=3086771f432fdc6014e6e93f8a443ea6&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=false&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The video below is one that made the rounds on the internet of him singing &#8220;<em>Driven to Tears<\/em>&#8221; with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/StingVEVO\" target=\"_blank\">Sting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robert Downey Jr and Sting &#8211; Driven To Tears<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Driven to Tears - Robert Downey Jr Sings With Sting\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1crxmBTxRlM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4>Did you enjoy this post? Leave a comment below and let us know! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/echoingwalls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow us on Facebook<\/a> for more great content.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Robert Downey Jr debuted his music career in 2004 with &#8220;the Futurist&#8221; under the Sony Classics label. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/robert-downey-jr-and-sting-driven-to-tears\/\" title=\"Robert Downey Jr and Sting &#8211; Driven To Tears\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[101186,101185,12841],"class_list":["post-105420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music-videos","tag-driven-to-tears","tag-robert-downey-jr","tag-sting"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}