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 reveals he visited his dying grandmother nearly every day as he praises the ‘unique’ NHS
thesun.co.ukED Sheeran has revealed he visited his dying grandmother nearly every day in the months leading up to her death. The popstar, 29, opened up about his grandmother's death as he penned a tribute to the "unique" NHS.
His beloved Granny Anne died in 2016 when he was on a hiatus from music. And Ed says he visited her so often in her final months that he's still friends with the staff at Aldeburgh Hospital in Suffolk who cared for her. "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 Adam Kay's new book Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You. "The care she received was incredible; the people who worked there so lovely, compassionate, funny.
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