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.
The cool meaning behind Ed Sheeran’s baby name ‘Lyra Antarctica’
evoke.ieA post shared by Ed Sheeran (@teddysphotos) on Sep 1, 2020 at 1:01am PDTEd and Cherry chose their daughter’s first name Lyra’s as they were inspired by the main character Lyra Belaqua, in her dad’s favourite book series, His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman.Bar far, Philip Pullman – his dark materials are the best books I’ve ever read.— Ed Sheeran (@edsheeran) June 13, 2015Not only this but a large portion of the first book, Northern Lights is actually set in Antartica as Lyra searches for her friend who has been kidnapped.However, it has been uncovered that the couple were holidaying in Antarctica nine months ago, so doing the maths on that one… A post shared by notjust (@notjustclothing) on Dec 17, 2019 at 4:38am PSTIn the photo posted.
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