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.
Women outnumbered by blokes in woke Brit Awards’ new gender-neutral Artist Of The Year category
thesun.co.ukMORE female-fronted acts than at any Brit Awards in the past ten years have been nominated for next year’s gong-fest. But ironically, nods in the brand-new gender-neutral Artist Of The Year category see the women outnumbered by men, three to two.
The old Best Female gong would have seen five women up for the prize. But last night the new woke category saw just Adele and Little Simz pitted against Ed Sheeran, Dave and Sam Fender.
Clara Amfo and Maya Jama announced the shortlists for the categories last night and 18 female artists or all-women groups featured.
Adele, Little Simz, Ed Sheeran and Dave lead the nominations with four each, followed by Sam Fender, Central Cee and David Guetta on three apiece.
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