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 considered quitting music after becoming a dad to daughter Lyra
officialcharts.comEd Sheeran has revealed that he considered quitting music during his 12-month break last year, when he and his wife Cherry Seaborn became parents.
Ed, who is currently Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with his comeback track Bad Habits, said he contemplated becoming a stay at home dad after the birth of his daughter Lyra in August.
Speaking on SiriusXM, the star said: "In my year off, I was kind of searching for who I was because I stopped playing music for a bit.
And music is entirely me as a person. "And then I had my daughter — well, my wife had our daughter, but I’m a parent. And then I was like, 'That’s it, this is me, I’m just going to be a dad, I’m not going to play music anymore'." Ed says he ultimately decided to return to
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