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 says he’s still “waiting” to meet Bob Dylan
nme.comEd Sheeran has said he is still “waiting” to meet his hero Bob Dylan.The singer-songwriter, who last week released his new album ‘Autumn Variations’, explained in a recent interview that Dylan was the last of his idols that he hasn’t met.“I’ve met them all, apart from Dylan… but if you meet Bob Dylan prematurely… I don’t want the picture thing,” Sheeran told the Daily Star (via Virgin Radio UK).“My rule was always I am never going to seek someone out to meet them, I’m going to wait for them to meet me.”The musician also recalled meeting Eminem, saying: “I wanted him to be like, ‘I like your stuff’.“I waited and after four years he said, ‘We should do a song’ and we became like friends.”Sheeran previously compared Dylan and Eminem in an interview with WatchMojo. “You might look at them and say they’re two totally different acts, but all you have to do with Eminem is put a guitar behind his words and it’s a very similar thing,” he said.“Folk music tells stories and hip hop tells stories, there’s just a beat that separates it.
Bob Dylan [raps] his tunes. If you listen to ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’, that’s not a million miles away from an Eminem tune.”In other news, Sheeran has just released a live bonus version of his latest studio album ‘Autumn Variations’.Subtitled ‘(Fan Living Room Sessions)’, the project features live renditions of each song on the LP, recorded and performed live from the homes of 14 of his fans..
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