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.
IN a rare interview, Ed Sheeran has told how his addictive personality made him binge on junk food until he was sick and spend 19 hours a day on social media.
In the frank chat with an American self-help book publisher, the singer credited wife Cherry, 28, for helping him to turn his health around.
Ed, 29, also opened up about losing family and friends due to his wealth, the mental toll of his mammoth world tours, where he wouldn’t see daylight for months, and how anxiety led him to question his career.
Addiction COMPARING his life to Sir Elton John’s early days of overindulging on drink and food, Ed revealed he had a “very addictive personality” and could relate to moments in the pop legend’s autobiography Me.
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