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.
Ed Sheeran and wife Cherry gave daughter name Antarctica after ‘conceiving her there on magical trip’
thesun.co.ukPOP superstar Ed Sheeran today announced the birth of his daughter — believed to have been conceived at the South Pole. Ed and wife Cherry said they were “completely in love” with the newborn, named Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran (L.A.S.S).
The pair enjoyed a magical trip to Antarctica last year — and welcomed their newborn daughter nine months later. The chart superstar, 29, revealed today that Cherry, 28, gave birth last week.
A source said the couple, who married in secret last year, wanted one of the middle names to be after the place of their conception.
They went on: “They view Antarctica as a very special place and also felt it worked as a name, too. “They wanted their daughter’s names to truly mean something.
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