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 praised as he splashes £230,000 on his old school to spend on children’s mental health services
thesun.co.ukGENEROUS Ed Sheeran has been praised for helping support children’s mental health by ploughing cash into his old school. He runs a foundation that has ploughed £230,000 of his own money into his former seat of learning in the last four years.
Ed’s money has paid for musical equipment, computers, photographic gear and art resources at the Thomas Mills School in Framlingham, Suffolk, where he met wife Cherry Seaborn.
He set up his Framlingham Foundation Trust to carry out good works in the area where he grew up and last year the school received donations of £30,000 from the body.
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