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’s song-theft accuser takes to the stand
completemusicupdate.comThe artist who accuses Ed Sheeran of ripping off his track ‘Oh Why’ when writing ‘Shape Of You’ took to the witness stand yesterday as the big song-theft legal battle in the London high court continues.Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue argue that Sheeran likely got hold of a copy of their song ‘Oh Why’ from friends they have in common, and then consciously or subconsciously lifted elements of that track when writing ‘Shape Of You’.
But Sheeran and his co-writers on the 2017 hit deny ever having heard ‘Oh Why’ before their songwriting sessions in late 2016, and argue that the elements shared by the two songs are commonplace in pop music.In a written statement and during his testimony in court yesterday, Chokri talked about how he actively tried to get a copy of his 2015 song to Sheeran.He said he was inspired by Sheeran’s success and recognised that if he could get an endorsement from the star that would be “a significant boost”.
To that end, he added, he sent copies of his EP to several people that he knew had connections to Sheeran, including producer Adam Coltman, musician Jake Roche and SBTV’s Jamal Edwards.Then recalling the first time he heard ‘Shape Of You’, Chokri said: “I was a passenger in my girlfriend’s car and ‘Shape Of You’ came on the radio.
She and I were both shocked to hear the similarities”. He later posted to Facebook the statement “anyone else think Ed Sheeran’s new song ‘Shape Of You’ chorus sounds familiar LOL?” That post got lots of responses, he added, including from Edwards who, in a comment subsequently deleted, used the ‘shifty eyes’ emoji.“I thought maybe [Jamal] had played a part in showing [my song] to Ed”, Chokri told the court, according to the BBC.
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