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 song-theft case gets underway in New York
completemusicupdate.comThe long awaited trial over whether or not Ed Sheeran ripped off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ when he wrote his song ‘Thinking Out Loud’ finally gets underway in New York later today.
This follows the jury selection process yesterday.Originally scheduled to commence in November 2020, but delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Sheeran is accused of infringing the copyright of late songwriter Ed Townsend, who co-wrote the Gaye classic.
The songwriter’s family say that the similarities between ‘Let’s Get It On’ and ‘Thinking Out Loud’ are too distinct to be a coincidence, while the Sheeran side argues that the only thing they have in common are often used chord progressions.Seven jurors were selected from a wider panel of New York residents yesterday.
Among those rejected were self-confessed Sheeran fans, a person who has personal links to artists signed to Sheeran’s publisher Sony Music Publishing, and someone studying for a PhD in Musicology.The three men and four women who made the final cut largely do not have any connection to music, although two have backgrounds in singing and musical theatre, according to Law360.Opening statements in the case are due to take place today.
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