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.
Aitch completes skydive for World Down’s Syndrome Day
nme.comAitch completed a 15,000 foot skydive yesterday (April 22) to celebrate World Down’s Syndrome Day and Down’s Syndrome Awareness Week.He was joined by his dad and his manager for the jump, which had been postponed from March 25 due to bad weather.The rapper became an ambassador for the Down’s Syndrome Association last year after making a generous donation from the budget of his music video for his Ed Sheeran collaboration ‘My G’.
The song was dedicated to his 13-year-old sister Gracie, affectionately known as ‘G’, who has Down’s syndrome.Speaking to BBC Newsbeat afterwards, he said that the dive was “a million times worth it” and he enjoyed it so much that he wanted to “shoot a video in the air”.“I think it’s important just because even when my sister was born, I didn’t even know what Down’s syndrome was if I’m honest with you,” he explained when asked why raising awareness of the condition was important to him. “I feel like people are quite funny about certain things, especially when it comes to having kids and finding out they’ve got disabilities – or even just people with disabilities not getting the same opportunity as everyone else.”Aitch also said that he wants to raise awareness “that it’s not out of this world to have a family member or child with Down’s syndrome, it doesn’t mean that anything’s any worse or anything like that.
If anything, it’s a little bit better.”He then revealed that his favourite thing about his relationship with Gracie is he has “the most genuine conversations with her over anyone else.”Elsewhere, Aitch told NME back in February that “there’s definitely going to be a lot of music” this year after his debut album ‘Close To Home’ came out in August 2022.“I’ve been in the studio a couple of.
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