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 drops new music, says Elton checks in on his COVID recovery
nypost.com“=” (pronounced “equals”), on schedule Friday morning.But the English singer-songwriter — who announced he had contracted the coronavirus last weekend — had to have a solo album release party from his quarantine.
Still, he kept up with his promotional commitments virtually on Thursday with an Apple Music “First Listen” livestream event.“I rarely, rarely cancel s—t, but it was quite heavy at the beginning of the week, and I’ve rested a lot, [taken] a lot of vitamin C and zinc and D and these pills, and I feel a lot better now,” Sheeran, 30, told Zane Lowe in the event, which you can still stream on Apple Music.
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