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 is known for being well in with music’s big names, but today he reveals only three A-list pals bothered to congratulate him on his new album Equals hitting No1.
The Shape Of You singer appeared to take aim at his pop “mates”, claiming many of them “actively want me to fail”, and said Stormzy, Dave and Sir Elton John were the only musicians to salute his new chart-topping success.
Ed said: “In terms of people that actually root for me and want me to win . . . I know so many artists who, whenever I win, scoff, and actually actively want me to fail. "But they would never tell me, I just know.
I hang around with people and I hear things.” Yet on the love he feels from UK black musicians, he continued: “I feel accepted.
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