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.
Ed Sheeran has inspired Niall Horan to stay busy by setting him the challenge of writing a song a day. The One Direction star admits he drafted up a strict routine to keep himself creative during the coronavirus lockdown but quickly realised his work was lacking in quality. “I was one of those people that was like, ‘Oh, I’ve got loads of time now.
I’m going to write a song a day and it’s going to be the best stuff I’ve ever written because I’ve got loads of time to think about it’,” he told Zane Lowe on Apple Music, “and then I just found myself just sitting down to write and just coming up with a load of c**p.” Thankfully, a chat with Sheeran motivated him to keep going. “I was asking him what he was doing and was he writing any bits,
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