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 asks for Thinking Out Loud copyright case to be postponed because of COVID travel restrictions
completemusicupdate.comEd Sheeran’s lawyers have asked that the court hearing for the big song-theft legal battle over his song ‘Thinking Out Loud’ be postponed into 2021 because of current COVID travel restrictions.
If that can’t happen, he and his team would have to spend four weeks in quarantine in two different countries before showing up at court.Sheeran is accused of ripping off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ on his 2014 hit and has been sued by the estate of the late songwriter Ed Townsend, who co-wrote Gaye’s song.There are plenty of parallels between this and other recent song-theft cases in the US courts, with the ruling in the ‘Stairway To Heaven’ litigation arguably favouring the Sheeran side.
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