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.
Piers Morgan's swipe at 'woke' Brit Awards introducing more gender-neutral categories
dailyrecord.co.ukPiers Morgan has taken a swipe at the Brit Awards as they attempt to become more "inclusive." Organisers of the music awards revealed today that they will be scrapping male and female categories and they would be replaced with gender-neutral awards in next year's ceremony.
The big awards of the night usually include British Male Solo Artist and British Female Solo Artist, though these have now been consolidated into a single award, titled Artist of the Year.The controversial decision means that the likes of Adele and Ed Sheeran - who have both released albums recently - could now compete against each other for the Brit Award.A number of awards were already gender-neutral though, with Harry Styles having been up against Dua Lipa, for
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