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 Shares Why He Still Doesn’t Feel Accepted By The Pop Genre
etcanada.comEd Sheeran may be one of the world’s bestselling music artists but he still feels like an outsider in the pop industry. Sheeran said on “The Breakfast Club” Tuesday: “I’m not accepted by my genre. “I thought it was quite telling that my album came out and the only people that emailed me in-depth about liking it were, like, Dave and Stormzy and people from the U.K.
rap and U.K. grime scene.” READ MORE: Ed Sheeran Reveals How Elton John Finally Convinced Him To Collaborate On A Christmas Song He went on, “My peers largely, I feel, in the pop scene often don’t want me to succeed… I’ve never felt accepted by my scene.” The musician brought up Phil Collins as a comparison, sharing how, in the ’80s and ’90s he was considered quite uncool,
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