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.
WATCH: Galway Girl Nicola Coughlan goes back to her roots in short film
evoke.ieNicola Coughlan is the woman of the moment after blowing international viewers away with her role in Bridgerton. She had a special place in our heart here after she appeared as the perpetually nervous Clare Devlin in Derry Girls.
But fans around the globe fell in love with her as the cheeky Penelope Featherington in the Netflix series. Now the 33-year-old has gone back to her roots as she returned to Galway following the success of the Regency series.
Showing off her comedy chops, she joked that she tells people Ed Sheeran’s Galway Girl is written about her. ‘Sometimes people believe me and it gets awkward,’ she joked, during a Netflix short film.
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