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 Hozier perform ‘Work Song’ with Ed Sheeran at PinkPop 2024
nme.comHozier brought out Ed Sheeran during his set at Pinkpop 2024 to perform ‘Work Song’ – check it out below.Hozier often performs the hit from his self-titled debut album with a guest during live shows, and its live airing at Pinkpop in the Netherlands was no different with Sheeran invited to take to the stage.“For this next song, this is such a treat and I feel so, so honoured that I get to do this.
This is going to be so much fun. I would like to invite to the stage one of the biggest artists on the planet. Aside from that and [being] an incredible songwriter but a wonderful person and a wonderful guy.”Check out their performance of ‘Work Song’ below:PinkPop turned out to be a busy weekend for Sheeran, who also joined Limp Bizkit for a cover of The Who’s ‘Behind Blue Eyes’.Earlier this month, Hozier also shared the stage with Lucy Dacus, performing ‘I, Carrion (Icarian)’ in New York City.
Last year, Dacus, Julien Baker, and Phoebe Bridgers invited Hozier on stage at a Boygenius show in Boston to perform ‘Salt in the Wound’.Earlier this year, he became the first Irish artist since the late Sinead O’Connor – and only the fourth ever – to top the Billboard Singles Chart in the country with ‘Too Sweet’, taken from his recent EP ‘Unheard’.Last year, he spoke to NME about his career so far, and in particular the huge success of his debut single, 2014’s ‘Take Me to Church’.“I think you just check out of [looking at] the numbers.
I try not to quantify to myself what a song has done based on its numbers,” he said. “For me, when I wrote it, I was super-proud of it.
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