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 says he was told to forget being a musician and “get a real job”
nme.comEd Sheeran has revealed that he was told to “get a real job” when revealing his aspirations of being a professional musician at school.Speaking in a new interview, the singer-songwriter spoke of how he wants kids to be able to follow their dreams.He told the Sunday Mirror: “I think kids should be encouraged to be creative.
When I was a child, saying you wanted to be a musician, they’d go, ‘You need to get a real job.’“School is so stressful,” he added. “You’ve got all these exams – maths, English and science – all these things are very difficult.
But what I want to say to kids is if you do what you love, you will eventually get paid for it.”Sheeran added that he believes you can learn “way more from failure than you do from success.“I have.
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