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.
Song-writing Ed Sheeran unveiled as mastermind behind JLS' comeback
mirror.co.ukTheir reunion plans were put on hold due to the pandemic, but it seems that the big JLS reunion may be worth the wait as the four-piece enlist the help of songwriting maestro Ed Sheeran ahead of their comeback.
The boyband, who came runners up to Alexandra Burke on The X Factor in 2008, had announced that they had reunited back in February 2020, with their Beat Again Tour scheduled for November 2020 before coronavirus saw it pushed back to October 2021.
The quartet have used lockdown to prepare new music for the first time since their split in 2013, with chart-topping songwriter Ed helping the boys out.
Speaking on the Capital Evening Show, the Shape of You singer said: "I've actually written a song for them, with Steve Mac who did Beat
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