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 songs inspired by “unbreakable bond” formed with wife during her illness
nme.comEd Sheeran has shared with fans one of the key inspirations behind his new album ‘–‘ (‘Subtract’).The pop star told the audience at his Eventim Apollo show in London on Monday (March 27) that his wife’s illness made their already deep bond “unbreakable”.
It inspired a number of songs on his upcoming fifth studio album [via MusicNews].His wife, Cherry Seaborn, was last year diagnosed with a tumour while she was pregnant with their second child.
Sheeran said that new song ‘No Strings’ was inspired by the ordeal, as well as advice that his father had given him about marriage.Sheeran said: “My dad said to me when I got married, ‘You will not know what real love and marriage is until there’s death and real sickness’.
He said that because that happened when he first married my mum. There was real, real grief that happened in the family and real, real sickness that ended up in grief that they had to go through.”Seaborn is now recovering from her illness.
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