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.
Lewis Capaldi discusses working with Ed Sheeran
completemusicupdate.comHaving Ed Sheeran co-write a song with you is obviously a great honour. Huge. What a treat that would be. Imagine doing that and then discussing with Sheeran about him being credited under a pseudonym.
And then changing some of his lyrics because you don’t like them. Who would do that? Lewis Capaldi, that’s who.“Every British artist who has a number one record seems to have Ed on it”, Capaldi tells the BBC. “That’s a testament to how good he is, but I was wary of it.
My ego was going, ‘I don’t want people thinking Ed wrote my song’”.“I actually mentioned that to him and he offered to take up a pseudonym”, he adds. “But at the end of the day, he did help write it, so there should be no question”.The song they wrote together was recorded for Capaldi’s new album ‘Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent’, which is due out in May next year.
Capaldi says that Sheeran successfully “brought out the softy in me”, but that he nevertheless felt that one line in the song – “She gives me more than everything, I’ll give her my last name” – had to be changed.“I was like, ‘Ed, this is 2022.
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