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.
Musical “magpie” Ed Sheeran in court over Shape Of You song theft claims
completemusicupdate.comEd Sheeran is a musical “genius” but also a musical “magpie” who borrows from other people’s work when he’s writing his pop songs.
Sometimes he borrows from the work of superstars, who get their credits. Other times he borrows from lesser known artists, who do not.
Or at least, that’s what lawyers working for musicians Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue claimed in the UK high court on Friday.This particular song theft battle is the one over Sheeran’s song ‘Shape Of You’ which – Chokri and O’Donoghue argue – rips off an earlier song their wrote called ‘Oh Why’.In this particular dispute, Sheeran actually went legal first after Chokri and O’Donoghue’s claims of song theft led to royalties due through the collective licensing system being put on hold.
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