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.
Watch Ed Sheeran surprise fan who posts YouTube covers by inviting him on stage
nme.comEd Sheeran surprised a fan who covers his songs on YouTube by inviting him on stage to perform ‘The A Team’ in London last week – check out the footage below.The singer-songwriter was performing at The O2 last Friday (March 24) as part of his current UK/Ireland and European arena tour when he spotted Luke Gittins, 22, in the audience.“Do you know ‘The A Team’?” Sheeran asked. “Do you want to come up and sing ‘The A Team?
This isn’t set up, so thank you very much for doing this last-minute. We’ve got a guitar set up for you.”As Gittins made his way up to the stage, the ‘=’ star explained: “The reason I wanted to do this, guys, is like… being an up-and-coming singer-songwriter is really, really, really tough.“And when I wrote ‘The A Team’ I was in a room and I was writing songs, and I was trying to make people care about the songs I wrote.
I was covering other people’s songs to try and make people care about the songs that I wrote.”Sheeran went on to say that he’d listened to Gittins’ original tracks, and hailed them as “brilliant”.
He then gave a shout-out to the musician’s YouTube channel before the pair performed together in front of 20,000 fans.A post shared by Ed Sheeran (@teddysphotos)Later, Sheeran shared some official footage of the moment as well as a clip of Gittins playing ‘Eyes Closed’ in the queue at The O2 (see the post above).“Every time I release a song @lukegittinsmusic is always the first to cover it,” he wrote in the caption. “I saw him front row at the O2 yesterday and decided to bring him up, this was totally unplanned and he was so prepared and so amazing without any heads up whatsoever.“Thanks so much Luke you’re wonderful.
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