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 tattoo artist reveals he was offered £300k for the art rights to that lion tattoo… and it’s set to be on show at an exhibition
metro.co.ukEd Sheeran’s tattoo artist, Kevin Paul, revealed he turned down an offer of £300,000 for the art rights to the singer’s huge lion tattoo.
Y’know the one. It’s a huge lion inked onto the front of Ed’s chest and nobody thought it was actually real at first. Well, it is real.
Very real in fact. And Kevin was once offered hundreds of thousands of pounds by a ‘big company’ for the rights to the artwork.
Speaking to GQ, Kevin said: ‘The lion tattoo design was first thought up the night before we actually did it, at [Ed’s] house.
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