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 found out Ed Sheeran played a gig in my garden and slept in my bedroom before he was famous
thesun.co.ukED Sheeran plays a gig in a garden before he got famous — in a snap which stunned the new occupant. Nigel Powley, 57, asked a neighbour if Ed had visited the area — and was told he played regularly in his Ipswich garden around 2009.
Gobsmacked Nigel was then shown pictures and video of Ed’s jamming sessions outside his £220,000 three-bed end-of-terrace. Cap wearing Ed, dressed in scruffy jeans, is holding a microphone in the images captured in 2009 before he signed his first big contract and went on to become a £220million megastar.
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