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.
THEY are two of the world’s biggest pop stars – one riding high at the top of music’s A-list right now, the other a chart legend with decades of hits.
But until now, the extent of Ed Sheeran’s extraordinary friendship with Sir Elton John has never been revealed. Talking to The Sun, Ed reveals how the pair are in contact EVERY DAY — sometimes multiple times — after 74-year-old Elton became a mentor to him.
In fact, as Ed chats to me in his only newspaper interview ahead of today’s release of new album Equals, the Rocketman star calls twice.
It comes as Ed explains how Elton stepped in to help with advice after the singer, 30, and wife Cherry welcomed their first child last year.
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