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 to Release New Album ‘-’ in May, Detailing Spiral Through ‘Fear, Depression and Anxiety’
variety.comJulia MacCary editor Ed Sheeran announced his fifth studio album, “-,” will drop May 5, detailing his personal journey through “fear, depression and anxiety.” Pronounced “subtract,” the acoustic album will conclude his mathematical album era, which began over a decade ago with “+.” The album was produced and written with Aaron Dessner of the National and follows his latest release “F64,” which dropped Jan.
19 and memorialized his friend and SBTV founder Jamal Edwards, who died last year at 31. “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,” Sheeran said in a statement. “Then at the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health.” Sheeran said writing the album helped him cope with his pregnant wife’s health struggles, Edwards’ death and defending his artistic integrity in court: “I wrote without thought of what the songs would be, I just wrote whatever tumbled out.” The Grammy-winning artist’s previous studio album “=” dropped Oct.
29, 2021, featuring hits “Shivers,” “Bad Habits” and “2Step.” His Camila Cabello collaboration “Bam Bam,” released March 4, 2022, was nominated for pop duo at the 2023 Grammys.
He is currently on his worldwide Mathematics Tour, which comes to the U.S. in May. “For the first time I’m not trying to craft an album people will like, I’m merely putting something out that’s honest and true to where I am in my adult life,” Sheeran said.
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