Turns out being a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, selling more than 100 million records, winning 17 Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and getting four Academy Award nominations doesn’t mean you can jump the line to get a cheesesteak.

“There’s never any left when I get to the dressing room,” said Sting, who will be coming back to Philadelphia on Sept. 6 to partner with Shaggy for the second One Fine Day Festival at the Mann Center in Fairmount Park. “I would stand in line and they would all be gone.”

This year, though, Sting will be able to count on his buddy to save a few.

“I’m always down for the cheesesteak,” said Shaggy, the Jamaican-born reggae musician who scored hits with the songs “It Wasn’t Me,” “Boombastic,” “In the Summertime,” “Oh Carolina,” and “Angel”. He has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards, winning twice for Best Reggae Album with “Boombastic” in 1996 and “44/876” with Sting in 2019.

“It’s a thing you got to do when you come here. Even though I had to stand in the lines sometimes. You know, because you’re going down to these spots where we’re outside in the line. I’m like, ‘I’m really standing in the line for cheesesteaks right now.’ But it was so worth it.”

Much like the original two years ago, Sting and Shaggy are bringing the One Fine Day Festival back to Philadelphia along with an eclectic mix of musicians.

Expect an uplifting spirit and energy along with additional musical performances including O.A.R.; Marcia Griffiths and Chance Emerson; The Original Wailers featuring Al Anderson, Big Freedia and Sophie Grey. Tickets are available at www.manncenter.org.

“I think we’d always wanted to bring it back because the first one was so successful,” Sting said. “Somebody said the other day, ‘Why Philadelphia?’ And I said, ‘Why not?’ It’s a major music center historically. It’s got a great music audience. So, of course we’re coming back.

“I’ve played everywhere in Philly. From Grendel’s Lair up to the stadiums. You know, every level and I’ve always had a good time. I always felt at home there. The city of brotherly love, and that’s very appropriate for me and Shaggy. It’s always a good time there.”

Which is what the artists hope to convey during the One Fine Day Festival. Sting and Shaggy pop up on stage the whole day, introducing the bands and interacting with the fans.

“You know, we wanted to feel the whole thing,” Shaggy said. “It was such a great day, and it’s not hard with Sting. It’s really him and I together. It becomes easy. I don’t think we really plan to really curate the whole thing. It just kind of happened like that, that we’re just going to introduce everybody, because we’re there and we wanted to be involved and get involved, not just having these acts on stage. We’re actually fans of them also. We want to see them play and, you know, we might, I watch a whole performance because then we have to rush to the next stage now. I think the audience likes us walking through the venue and they stop and say ‘Hi.’ That’s what we really like and who we are as people.”

While each band on the schedule brings its own energy to the day, when Sting and Shaggy take the stage, everything shoots to the stratosphere.

“It’s a kind of like a battle of the bands,” said Sting. “You know, we have basically two bands out there. I’ll play a song. Shaggy will do one of his and then he’ll just interrupt me when he feels like it and I, I can interrupt him. So it’s kind of a loose arrangement, but we trust each other not to mess it up too much.”

Shaggy, for his part, still enjoys the surprise element.

“I think it’s the element of surprise.” said Shaggy. “People always always told me they like that element of surprise. I think people are surprised when they see this connection. I think on paper it looks weird. Until you’re in it and your like, ‘Oh, but I know all these songs. It’s trusting each other’s instincts and musical taste, because we kind of see eye-to-eye on everything really. I just go with the flow of it.”

In 2018, Sting and Shaggy put out the album “44/876,” winning a Grammy for Best Reggae Album. The friends would like to do that again, but it’s finding the time to record that is proving difficult.

“That’ll be kind of easy for us to do, but finding the time when we can do is tough,” said Sting.

The recording, though, isn’t the main thing. Both artists want to be up on stage, taking the audience on a journey.

“I didn’t get into music for the recording aspect of it,” Shaggy said. “I write pretty well, and I record pretty well. I’ll listen to a song a couple of times, then I’m done. I don’t wanna hear it again. I wanna move to the next thing. But, I never get tired of an audience because each audience is different. And that energy that you get from that, that’s why I got into the music.”