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 bought his entire £60 million property empire with cash – and has never had a mortgage
thesun.co.ukSINGING sensation Ed Sheeran was once homeless but now he owns the keys to a £57million property empire – and doesn’t owe a penny to the banks.
He slept rough in front of Buckingham Palace and rode the tube to catch some shut-eye when he had nowhere else to go. Now he’s got his own London mansion and a country estate to boot.
And Ed – worth an estimated £200 million – has paid cash for the lot because he didn’t want to take out a string of mortgages.
That includes the £20 million he paid for his house in London’s trendy Notting Hill, plus the two neighbouring properties for £4 million and £1.5 million for his restaurant Bertie Blossoms on Portobello Road.
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