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 on ‘horrible’ month: ‘Life hasn’t moved on for me yet’
nypost.comfacing legal woes in a copyright infringement trial over his 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud.”The 32-year-old, who admitted he would be “done” if the trial doesn’t go his way, has also opened up about a “horrible month” that devastated him in February 2022.While still reeling from his wife Cherry’s cancer diagnosis, he was then shattered by the death of his best friend, British music entrepreneur Jamal Edwards, who helped launch his career. “I don’t think I’ll ever get to February and be like, ‘This is a great month,’ ” says the “Shape of You” singer-songwriter in “Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All,” a four-part Disney+ docuseries that premieres on Wednesday. “That was a horrible, horrible month.
Life hasn’t moved on for me yet, and I don’t actually think it will.”It all started when a tumor discovered six months into Cherry’s pregnancy with their second child turned out to be cancerous.“Cherry had gone to have her lump taken out, and I kept saying … that it was just a lump and not to worry, and that it was all good.
And then [when] I was rehearsing, ‘I remember getting a call from [Cherry] being like, ‘Yeah, it’s not.’ ”The initial prognosis was grim. “The doctor was basically like, ‘This is really bad,’ ” says the four-time Grammy winner. “There were no treatment plans that worked with a six-month pregnancy.”Sheeran coped with the crushing news by going on a songwriting spree, penning seven tunes in just four hours.
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