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 buys mobile after going without one for over four years
thesun.co.ukED Sheeran has finally bought a mobile after four years without one. The songwriter, 30, famously did not own a mobile after ditching them in 2017.
He got a basic £59.99 Nokia 3310 so he could assure NHS Test and Trace he was in quarantine after foreign trips. Ed told a podcast: “I’ve been doing promotion overseas and quarantine afterwards. "The Government call you but I didn’t have a phone for them to call me on. “They were really on me.
I think they were trying to catch me out.” Ed followed the five day test release scheme which allows international travellers to finish quarantine on their fifth day if a private PCR test comes back negative.
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