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 dropped by former management company for being ginger and using a loop pedal
completemusicupdate.comEd Sheeran’s first management company dropped him for being ginger and using a loop pedal, his now manager Stuart Camp has said.“The other management actually resigned from him because they said he wasn’t going anywhere”, Camp tells the Straight Up podcast of how he came to work with Sheeran, initially at Elton John’s Rocket Management. “[They told him] he had to dye his hair black, give up the loop pedal and give up the rapping, which I kind of see their point there”.As for whether that company is now kicking itself, he says: “For a long time their website said they discovered Ed Sheeran, which was a cause of hilarity – you didn’t mention the bit where you said he was shit and he went away.
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