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 fans might need to brace themselves for a change of pace when it comes to his music as he has hinted he might reinvent himself as a death metal musician.
The 30-year-old chart topping star has made himself something of a king of bland pop music – with his generic tunes proving too irresistible to most and becoming smash hits around the world.
But Ed says he may well swap out his pop-by-numbers music making ways to switch things up and instead create new tunes that include thrashing guitar riffs, gnarly bass beats and vicious drum hammering.
The Lego House singer – who has already dipped his toes into the worlds of rock, dance, rap and reggae music – says he might be up for emulating some of the alternative bands he loved as a
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