Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011. It topped the UK and Australian charts, reached number five in the US, and has since been certified eight-times platinum in the UK.
The album contains the single "The A Team", which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John.
Ed Sheeran is hitting the road. As the 32-year-old pop star gears up for his upcoming "+-=x Tour" (pronounced: «The Mathematics Tour»), he announced on Friday a special run of intimate shows to coincide with the release of his new album, (pronounced: ""). «I'm playing some smaller theatre shows in the U.S.
this summer, so I can play the entire way through with full band in an intimate setting,» Sheeran explained on social media.
The Subtract Tour will take place in theaters and auditoriums in 14 cities across North America, beginning in Clearwater, Florida, on May 19 and wrapping at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on September 22.
The smaller-scale performances will coincide with his massive stadium shows for The Mathematics Tour, which kicks off May 6 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
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