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 writes and records new song ‘Under The Tree’ for Richard Curtis film ‘That Christmas’
nme.comEd Sheeran has written and recorded a new song, ‘Under The Tree’, for an upcoming Christmas movie directed by Simon Otto and written and produced by Richard Curtis.The song will feature in That Christmas, an animated film that’s set to come to Netflix on December 6.
Among the stars providing their voices are Brian Cox, Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker and Bill Nighy – the former voices Santa Claus, while the others voice residents of a seaside town where things turn upside down one Christmas.Sheeran said: “I’ve been mates with Richard Curtis for years, and we’ve done a load of fun work for charity, and then both were heavily involved in the movie Yesterday.
He came to me two years ago to play me the rough of That Christmas. It was just sketches and voices, but it blew me away. So emotional, yet so heartwarmingly funny, like all Richard Curtis movies.“I find since having kids, there’s a real lack of great animated children’s Christmas movies, so I thought this was such an amazing thing to make and put into the world.
The scene that we wrote this song for is so heartbreaking, but so real for many people at Christmas spending it without the ones they love, for so many reasons.“I got to work with my older brother [composer Matthew] on this which is such a rarity and a gift to work so closely with my only sibling, it felt so good to create something my children would watch, with their uncle, based in the country they live in.
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