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 has spent £170,000 in two years to help find the next global superstar at his old school
thesun.co.ukED Sheeran was the first global music phenomenon to come out of his school – but he is hoping he won’t be the last. I’ve learned he has ploughed £170,000 into Thomas Mills School over the past two years to help its students excel in the arts and IT.
The school, in Framlingham, Suffolk, where Ed met his future wife Cherry Seaborn, has benefitted from the Ed Sheeran Suffolk Music Foundation, which has helped to buy MacBooks, cameras and a photography darkroom.
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