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 Teases Emotional New Single ‘Eyes Closed’ From Forthcoming Album ‘Subtract’
etcanada.comEd Sheeran is giving fans a taste of his new music. In a TikTok video on Thursday, the singer shared a clip of himself performing a snippet of the song “Eyes Closed”, from his forthcoming album Subtract. READ MORE: Ed Sheeran Announces New Album ‘Subtract’ And Reveals His Wife Developed A Tumour During Her Pregnancy The video opens with Sheeran sitting down at a piano and beginning to play the song. “So I’,m dancing with my eyes closed,” Sheeran sings, “‘Cause everywhere I look I still see you/Time is moving so slow/And I don’t know what else I can do/So I’ll keep dancing with my eyes closed.” Sheeran officially announced the new album last week, writing in a statement about the darker themes of the songs on it, including revealing that his wife, Cherry Seaborn, was diagnosed with a tumour while pregnant with their second child. READ MORE: Ed Sheeran’s Wife Cherry Seaborn Reportedly ‘Recovering Well’ After Tumour Diagnosis During Pregnancy “I had been working on Subtract for a decade, trying to sculpt the perfect acoustic album, writing and recording hundreds of songs with a clear vision of what I thought it should be.
Then at the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art,” he said. “Writing songs is my therapy.
It helps me make sense of my feelings. I wrote without thought of what the songs would be, I just wrote whatever tumbled out.
And in just over a week, I replaced a decade’s worth of work with my deepest darkest thoughts.” Subtract (styled as “–“) is out March 24.
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