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.
A group of locked-down primary school students in the U.K. just got a special surprise from Ed Sheeran. RELATED: Ed Sheeran Is Still Paying Wages For His London Bar Staff During The Pandemic According to the Sun, Timothy Spoerer, music director at Ecclesbourne Primary School in London, welcomed the singer onto a Zoom call with his students. “I basically wasn’t very smart at school I thought I was an idiot for a very long time,” Sheeran revealed to the kids. “I couldn’t do maths, science, and English, and I was told to be successful in life you had to do those things. “I loved playing music, that’s what made me happiest.
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