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.
AT the height of their success, The Wanted were partying with J-Lo, touring America and even hanging out at the White House.
Now, in an upcoming book, singer Tom Parker - who tragically died in March after a year and a half battling brain cancer - has lifted the lid on the band's wildest adventures.
Here, in an exclusive extract from his upcoming memoir, Hope: My Inspirational Life, he reveals how one wild night out landed an A-list star in jail.
He also writes about the band's unlikely appearance at the White House and joking around with Ed Sheeran, who amazingly stepped in to pay for Tom's medical bills.
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