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.
I ballooned to 15st on diet of wine, beer and chicken wings, confesses Ed Sheeran
thesun.co.ukED Sheeran has told how he ballooned to 15½st when he quit touring — after boozing every day and gorging on fried food. The pop superstar, 30, recalls: “I loved chicken wings, wine, beer, and I never exercised.” But he reveals in an exclusive interview how he has since stopped bingeing and shed 5st.
Ed Sheeran says becoming a dad clawed him back from a life of excess and hard partying – which put him in “dangerous” situations.
In his only newspaper interview ahead of his new album release tomorrow, the A-lister told how he turned his lifestyle around when wife Cherry was pregnant last year with daughter Lyra.
He recalled how loneliness on tour had led him to drink alone — and he started bingeing at home when he took time off from music.
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