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.
Weirdest Presents Celebrities Have Given to Each Other: Drake, Ed Sheeran and More
usmagazine.comIt’s the thought that counts? Many celebrities — from Drake and Ed Sheeran to Lady Gaga and Eminem — have gifted their A-List friends some pretty weird presents.The “Hotline Bling” artist made headlines in November 2022 when he gave his friend DJ Khaled several high-end toilets for the producer’s 47th birthday.
The Louisiana native later took to Instagram to share his excitement about the gift.“Listen, this is not no regular toilet bowl,” Khaled explained in a video at the time. “My brother Drake just bought me and my family about four big toilet bowls.
This is called a Toto toilet bowl.”He continued: “I’m not even joking, Drake, we been wanting this. Me and my queen been talking about getting Totos for the whole house.”One month prior, Sam Smith shared an NSFW gift that the “Shape of You” singer sent them while appearing on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “Oh, my God. … It’s actually wild.
I thought it was a joke, but it’s a six-foot-two marble penis,” the “Stay With Me” crooner told host Kelly Clarkson in October 2022. “It’s two tons, and I’m gonna have to get it craned into my house.”Sheeran, for his part, defended the gift and its backstory during an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert that same month. “Elton John has been involved in my career from the get-go, and he buys me weird gifts,” the British songwriter said. “Just, like, odd gifts, like, sexual sort of objects.”The “Shivers” singer went on to explain that he purchased a phallic-shaped statue for the “I’m Still Standing” performer. “I gave it to him for his birthday, and Elton was over the moon about it.
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