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.
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Ed Sheeran gushes over friendship with Taylor Swift and says she 'truly understands him'
ok.co.ukEd Sheeran has opened up on his long-standing friendship with fellow hit-maker Taylor Swift. Describing the I Knew You Were Trouble singer as one of the "only people that actually truly understands" him and where he's currently at in his career, Ed, 32, added that speaking to Taylor, 33, is like "therapy".
Speaking to Apple Music 1 frontman Zane Lowe, father-of-two Ed - who shares daughters Lyra Antarctica and Jupiter with wife Cherry Seaborn - claimed he recently spent over an hour on the phone with his fellow chart-topper. "I have long, long, long conversations with Taylor about stuff just because I feel like she's one of the only people that actually truly understands where I'm at. "I had an hour-20 [minute] conversation with her yesterday and we were just — everything that was on our minds we talked about.
I mean that in itself is kind of therapy as well, because you're actually talking to someone that genuinely gets it." He continued: "That has all the things that you feel and have insecurities about and how other people treat you or how your family treat you, how your friends treat you.
She's basically in the same sphere." The Thinking Out Loud singer-songwriter also shared how his friendship with Taylor - who jointly performed the 2012 track Everything Has Changed - branches into his work, claiming she had encouraged him to collaborate with producer Aaron Dessner, who had previously worked on albums Folklore and Evermore with Taylor.
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