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 Recalls His Grandmother’s Final Days In Essay Praising Britain’s National Health Service
etcanada.comEd Sheeran is paying tribute to Britain’s National Health Service, revealing he and his family visited his hospitalized grandmother so often before she passed away that they became friends with the nurses who cared for her.
Sheeran wrote about his experience for in Adam Kay’s new book Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, revealing his frequent visits to Aldeburgh Hospital in Suffolk, England while she was hospitalized. “I was lucky enough not to be on tour during my grandmother’s final months, and because I lived locally I was able to visit her every few days,” he writes in the book, via The Sun.
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