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 Re-Teams With Aaron Dessner For His Second Album Of 2023: ‘Autumn Variations’
etcanada.comEd Sheeran is having a productive year. On Thursday, the singer announced his second album of 2023, Autumn Variations, revealing that the record will be available Sept.
29. READ MORE: Ed Sheeran Freaks Out Customers While Working As Lego Store ‘Brick Specialist’ The album follows the May 5th release of Sheeran’s previous album – (Subtract), and sees him re-team with producer Aaron Dessner, of The National.
Dessner has gained a high profile as a producer after working with Taylor Swift on her recent albums, as well as singer Gracie Abrams. “Last autumn, I found that my friends and I were going through so many life changes.
After the heat of the summer, everything either calmed, settled, fell apart, came to a head or imploded,” said Sheeran in a statement about the new album. “When I went through a difficult time at the start of last year, writing songs helped me understand my feelings and come to terms with what was going on,” he continued, “and when I learned about my friends’ different situations, I wrote songs, some from their perspectives, some from mine, to capture how they and I viewed the world at that time.
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