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’s Eric Clapton guitar was nearly destroyed by fire
nme.comEd Sheeran has revealed that a guitar gifted to him by Eric Clapton was almost destroyed in a studio blaze.The singer-songwriter said in a new interview that Clapton had signed a guitar for him and gave it to him as a present when Sheeran was visiting his home.
Sheeran has previously spoken about Clapton being an icon of his; the pair have since become good friends.Sharing the anecdote on Hot Ones, Sheeran said: “My hero is Eric.
When I was 11 I heard ‘Layla’, picked up a guitar and went from there. I got to know him in 2015 and we’ve been friends ever since.“I went to his house and he took his guitar off the wall and just gave it to me.
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