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 move into metal could be on the way, with the help of Cradle Of Filth
completemusicupdate.comWe may be getting closer to that collaboration between Ed Sheeran and Cradle Of Filth you’re always wittering on about. The metal band’s vocalist Dani Filth has revealed that he and Sheeran have been in contact and are planning to get together.This follows a recent throwaway comment by Sheeran saying that he “would not be opposed” to recording a bit of metal one day. “I was really into death metal as a kid”, he told The Sun. “I listened to Cradle Of Filth and Slipknot and all that stuff.
I’m not saying I could ever step into that world. [But] I learnt all those riffs on guitar as a kid”.Filth responded by saying “I’ll believe it when I see it”, and now it seems he may get that opportunity sooner rather than later.
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