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 talks “really different” new single and playing with a band for the first time
nme.comEd Sheeran has revealed that his “really different” new single was meant to be out in time for his appearance at Radio 1’s Big Weekend.The singer-songwriter, whose third record ‘Divide’ came out in 2017, gave a special performance on the banks of River Alde in Suffolk for a virtual edition of the station’s annual festival.Having released the song ‘Afterglow’ last December, Sheeran told fans back in February that he’d return with his fourth album at some point “later this year”.Speaking to Radio 1’s Jordan North ahead of his Big Weekend show, Sheeran explained: “My first single was meant to be ready for now, and I was meant to be playing it at One Big Weekend.”He went on to say that it feels “a bit weird” to be performing without any new.
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