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.
Masked opera singers deliver anonymous performance on NYC subway
nypost.comviolent attacks and service disruptions — the city’s much-derided transit system has long been a wellspring of some of the world’s most underrated soloists.Following in the footsteps of now famous buskers such as Ed Sheeran, Beck and Tracy Chapman, for example, there’s Just Sam, the 22-year-old “American Idol” winner who built her career by busking on NYC subways.
Or, there’s secret sensation Charlotte Awbery, who blew us away in early 2020 when she was asked to sing Lady Gaga’s “Shallow” on-the-spot in a London tube station.
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