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.
One Liners: Sky Ferreira, Ed Sheeran, Noga Erez, more
completemusicupdate.comDEALSNoga Erez has signed a new deal with Warner/Atlantic’s Neon Gold Records, following two albums with indie label City Slang. “I’m super excited to begin to work with the people of Atlantic/Neon Gold”, she says. “This partnership is a big step for me.
We’ve already started to get the ball rolling creatively and we have some big plans ahead of us”. She’s not joking, here’s new single ‘Nails’.————————————————–APPOINTMENTSThe UK’s Featured Artists Coalition has appointed Genneah Turner as its new General Manager.
Noting her past work in artist management, she says: “It has been my greatest pleasure to have been trusted in the role of artist manager, helping recording artists navigate the business of music in a way that centred their autonomy, and created the best foundation from which they could create and share their art.
I’m THRILLED to be joining the FAC where I can turn that micro focus outwards to support recording artists as a whole and build on the great work that the FAC’s founding artists started and more recently that [CEO] David Martin has built on across the organisation”.————————————————–RELEASESSky Ferreira has released her first new single for more than three years, ‘Don’t Forget’.
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