page_title: Bernard Sumner
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Bernard Sumner / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Bernard Sumner, live at the Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, 2005.
context_page_description: Bernard Sumner is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known as a founding member of both Joy Division, for whom he was the lead guitarist and keyboardist, and New Order, for whom he is the lead vocalist and guitarist. He has also been credited with advancing UK dance music and popularising the use of sequencers. In the early 1990s, he formed the duo Electronic alongside The Smiths' guitarist Johnny Marr.
caption: Sumner performing with New Order in 2005
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