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Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter who began writing songs at age 11. He independently released his first EP in 2011 and signed with Asylum Records that same year. His debut album topped the UK charts and contained his first hit single "The A Team". Sheeran has since released several successful albums, including x in 2014 and ÷ in 2017, both of which topped charts worldwide. He has won several awards for his music, including multiple Brit Awards and Grammys. Sheeran is considered one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

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Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter who began writing songs at age 11. He independently released his first EP in 2011 and signed with Asylum Records that same year. His debut album topped the UK charts and contained his first hit single "The A Team". Sheeran has since released several successful albums, including x in 2014 and ÷ in 2017, both of which topped charts worldwide. He has won several awards for his music, including multiple Brit Awards and Grammys. Sheeran is considered one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

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Ed Sheeran

Edward Christopher Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter. Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire,


and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk, he began writing songs around the age of eleven. In early
2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play No. 5 Collaborations Project. He signed
with Asylum Records the same year.

Sheeran's debut album, was released in September 2011 and topped the UK Albums Chart. It
contained his first hit single "The A Team". In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British
Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. Sheeran's second studio album, × ("Multiply"),
topped charts around the world upon its release in June 2014. It was named the
second-best-selling album worldwide of 2015. In the same year, × won Album of the Year at the
2015 Brit Awards, and he received the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year from the
British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. A single from "Thinking Out Loud",
earned him the 2016 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.
Sheeran's third album, ÷ ("Divide"), was released in March 2017, and was the best-selling album
worldwide of 2017. The first two singles from the album, "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill", broke
records in a number of countries by debuting in the top two positions of the charts. He also became the
first artist to have two songs debut in the US top 10 in the same week. By March 2017, Sheeran had
accumulated ten top-10 singles from ÷ on the UK Singles Chart, breaking the record for most top-10 UK
singles from one album. His fourth single from ÷, "Perfect", reached number one in the US, Australia, and
the UK, where it became the Christmas number one in 2017. The world's best-selling artist of 2017, he
was named the Global Recording Artist of the Year. Released in 2019, his fourth overall and first
collaborative album, No.6 Collaborations Project, debuted at number one in most major markets, and
spawned three UK number one singles, "I Don't Care", "Beautiful People", and "Take Me Back to London".
His fifth studio album, topped the charts in most major markets in 2021. His sixth album, - ("Subtract"),
was released on 5 May 2023, while his seventh album, Autumn Variations, was released on 29
September 2023 under his own record label, Gingerbread Man Records.
Sheeran sang at a local church choir at the age of four,
learned
S how to play the guitar at age eleven,[26] and began
writing songs while at Thomas Mills High School in
Framlingham.[] He also played the cello when he was
younger. A 2004 school report described him as a "natural
performer", and his classmates also voted him "most likely to
be famous".[28] He was accepted at the National Youth
Theatre in London as a teenager.[29][30] He successfully
auditioned for Youth Music Theatre UK in 2007 and joined
their production of Frankenstein – A New Musical in
Plymouth.[31] He is a patron of Youth Music Theatre UK (now
renamed British Youth Music Theatre)[32] and of Access to
Music, where he studied Artist Development.[33][34] Sheeran is
a second cousin of Northern Irish broadcaster Gordon
Burns,[35] who hosted the British game show The Krypton
Factor.[21]

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