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 breaks down about wife's cancer diagnosis amid ‘Thinking Out Loud’ jury trial
foxnews.comDuring the toughest moments in life, Ed Sheeran turns to his wife as his muse. After the Grammy Award-winning songwriter discovered his pregnant wife Cherry Seaborn was diagnosed with cancer, he revealed he wrote seven songs in four hours to cope with the devastating news. "It was horrible," Sheeran admitted while he broke down in tears during an emotional interview.
The "Shape of You" singer opened up about the trauma he and his wife went through in his new Disney+ docuseries, "Ed Sheeran: The Sum of it All." "I got diagnosed with cancer at the start of the year which was a massive s---ter," Seaborn noted during the documentary. "It made me massively reflect on our mortality.
I would never agree to do anything like this, but it made me think, 'Oh if I died, what's people's perception of me? What do you leave behind?'" In the first episode of Sheeran’s docuseries titled, "Love," the couple candidly spoke out about their experience with Seaborn’s battle with cancer. "For Ed, the whole point is he wants to say to people, 'I'm not just this music machine.
I'm not just this robot that tries to get No. 1. I'm a father, I'm a son, I'm a friend.' It wasn't until this year when I was like, 'I might die.'" "Some people write a diary and get their emotions out through the pen and, for Ed, if something really intense happens, he'll go and write a song," Seaborn added.
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