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 secretly got parenting practice by giving music lessons to local school children in lockdown over Zoom
thesun.co.ukDAD-TO-BE Ed Sheeran has been brushing up on his parenting skills by teaching kids music in lockdown. The Shape of You singer , 29, surprised some local school children at Ecclesbourne Primary School when he popped up on their online lessons during lockdown.
Ed taught the keen kids the chords to his hit track Perfect in the 50 minute lesson. The musician's good mate, Timothy Spoerer, is the director of music at the school and roped in his old friend for the Zoom class in May.
Along with performing the song for the excited children, Ed performed a medley of his other songs and taught the students how to adapt any song using just four chords.
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