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 painting Dab 2 sells for £40k at charity auction as singer raises £406,000 for charity at auction
thesun.co.ukED Sheeran has sold his first artwork for an impressive £40,000. The 29-year-old singer put one of his paintings on sale for the first time as part of a charity auction in his name.
And it fetched £40,000 at the weekend - £20,000 more than a limited edition print of respected artist Damien Hirst’s work Patience.
A painting of the singer called Ed and the Castle by acclaimed artist Ben Mosley also went for £20,000. The pop star donated the artwork, Dab 2 2020, to the Ed Sheeran: Made In Suffolk Legacy auction, which is raising money for children and young people, across East Anglia, with disabilities and life-limiting illnesses.
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