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 retirement from music following his daughter’s birth
nme.comEd Sheeran has revealed that he almost retired from music following the birth of his daughter.The singer took a lengthy career break in 2019 and considered making it permanent when his wife Cherry Seaborn gave birth to the couple’s first child, a daughter called Lyra, last September.Sheeran has now told SiriusXM: “I stopped playing music for a bit.
And music is entirely me as a person. Then I had my daughter and I was like: ‘Right, that’s it. This is me. I am probably just going to be a dad.
I am not going to play music anymore'”.But, after putting a lot of “time and effort” into the early days of fatherhood, Sheeran said that going back to work has allowed him to set a good example to his daughter.“Then I was suddenly like: it is more.
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