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 showing the most personal sides of himself in his upcoming Disney+ docuseries. On Monday, the official trailer for dropped, pulling back the curtain on the highs and lows the musician has faced throughout his career.
Each episode of the four-part docuseries will explore four different themes: love, loss, focus and balance. The trailer stars at the beginning of the star's story with videos of a young Sheeran performing. «Ginger hair, really short, he stutters» he says of himself. «That guy doesn't becoming a pop star… It's so unlikely.»Sheeran eventually goes from busking on the streets to selling out the biggest crowd of his life and making the music he loves.
Considering the singer generally keeps his marriage out of the spotlight, the trailer get deeply personal with rare videos of the «Shape of You» singer and his pregnant wife, Cherry Seaborn. «Everything in my life sort of got so much better when Cherry got into it,» he says as a clip of him touching her pregnant belly plays. «I've got married and I'm a dad who has two daughters.»However, the documentary takes a turn as Sheeran discusses more recently challenges, including Cherry's health and the death of the man who discovered him, best friend Jamal Edwards.«Cherry's health, it was really bad and then suddenly my best friend Jamal dies,» he says. «You guys said we should make a documentary and I said 'Yeah, it will be me in the studio, and we'll play the gig.' That's not what the documentary is.
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