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 first demo up for auction after being found in drawer
breakingnews.ieEd Sheeran’s first demo – love songs recorded at the age of 13 – is going under the hammer. The star, now 29, made around 20 copies of the album, called Spinning Man.
He previously admitted he did not want anyone “get hold of a copy” so he has 19 in his possession. Now one of the demos, which features songs with titles like Addicted and Misery, has been unearthed from a drawer where it had been “forgotten” for many years.
Sheeran was staying with relatives and sleeping on their sofa, while making money by busking, when he handed a copy to a friend of the relatives.
The man’s brother, Kevin, 48, who does not want to give his surname, is selling the CD. “My brother put it in a drawer and forgot about it,” he told the PA news agency. “At the
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