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 the first song he wrote almost ended up on a Matt Groening show
nme.comEd Sheeran has revealed that the first song he ever wrote almost ended up soundtracking a show by The Simpsons creator Matt Groening.In a new interview with Apple Music the musician recalled writing a song in his pre-teens called ‘Typical Average Teen’, which also happened to be the proposed title of a show Groening was working on.Sheeran recalled: “It was before I was a teenager and it was called ‘Typical Average Teen’.
The creator of The Simpsons [Groening] was doing a show, my cousin knew him.“And they were like, ‘Oh, they’re doing this show about a typical average teen.’ And he was like, ‘My cousin wrote something like that.’“So [the song] was actually going to be the soundtrack to this thing for a while.
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