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 new song ‘Eyes Closed’ is about “losing someone”, remembers Jamal Edwards
nme.comEd Sheeran has opened up about new song ‘Eyes Closed’, revealing that it was inspired by the loss of late music entrepreneur and close friend of the musician, Jamal Edwards.The track, which is out on March 24, will appear on the singer-songwriter’s fifth studio album ‘-‘ (‘Subtract’), which is due for release on May 5 via Asylum/Atlantic (pre-order/pre-save here).“This song is about losing someone, feeling like every time you go out and you expect to just bump into them, and every thing just reminds you of them and things you did together,” Sheeran wrote in an Instagram post.“You sorta have to take yourself out of reality sometimes to numb the pain of loss, but certain things just bring you right back into it.
Blue was Jamal’s colour, but now is all I feel. And I guess music helps heal, so I’m dancing with my eyes closed to try get through it x.”A post shared by Ed Sheeran (@teddysphotos) SBTV founder and DJ Edwards died in Acton, west London on February 20, aged 31.
A coroner later ruled that his death was a result of a cardiac arrest due to taking cocaine.Sheeran has repeatedly said that he owes his success to the late Edwards, who was an early supporter of Sheeran’s music through the SBTV YouTube channel.The singer-songwriter performed ‘You Need Me, I Dont Need You’ on SBTV in 2010, prior to the release of his debut album ‘+’ the following year.Speaking at a memorial for Edwards in September 2022, Sheeran explained: “I really don’t think I would have been given the opportunities that I was given had it not been for Jamal putting his arm around me [via the BBC].”In January, the musician then payed tribute to Edwards with a powerful SBTV freestyle.Announcing his new album earlier this month, Sheeran also opened up about.
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