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 runs the Framlingham Foundation Trust in Suffolk to help kids in the county where he grew up.His manager Stuart Camp overseas the good cause and the charity’s annual accounts revealed: “The foundation paid for a primary music teacher to undertake a specialist teaching course in the Kodaly learning method.“This method is well known as an alternative to traditional music tuition (focussing predominantly on aural skills and intuitive skill) and allows those students with learning difficulties to access a world of musical creation they may otherwise find it difficult to connect with.”His mom Imogen has just set up a good cause working in the field.She is registered as a director of the Suffolk Kodaly Community Interest Company, which aims to.
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