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 Must Face a Jury Trial Over 'Thinking Out Loud' Marvin Gaye Copyright Case
justjared.comEd Sheeran is heading to court. A federal judge said the 31-year-old singer-songwriter must face a jury trial over whether he stole key parts of his hit single “Thinking Out Loud” from Marvin Gaye‘s iconic 1973 song “Let’s Get It On,” thereby rejecting his attempts to toss out the case, via Billboard. Click inside to read more… Ed’s lawyers argue that the lawsuit, filed by an entity that owns a partial stake in the song, was invalid because the combination of simple elements he allegedly stole was not unique enough to be covered by a copyright in the first place.
However, Judge Louis Stanton ruled there was “no bright-line rule” for deciding that, and that Ed must argue his case in front of a jury on trial at a Manhattan federal courthouse at some point in the future.
A date has not yet been set. He recently defeated a similar lawsuit in the U.K. that claimed he stole to create his 2017 hit, “Shape of You.”
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