Ed Sheeran was born on February 17, 1991 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK. He started playing the guitar early, showing a strong ambition to become a talented musician.
When he was 11 years old, Sheeran met singer-songwriter Damien Rice backstage at one of Rice's shows. In this meeting, the young musician found additional inspiration. Rice told Sheeran to write his own music, and Sheeran decided to do just that the next day.
Soon Sheeran was making CDs and selling them. He later put together his first official EP, The Orange Room. Sheeran left home with a guitar and a backpack filled with clothes, and his music career took off.
Once in London, Sheeran began recording cover versions of various tracks by local singers. Then he moved on to his tracks and released two albums relatively quickly. The song of the same name in 2006 and the album Want Some? in 2007.
He also started working with more established artists. Among them were Nizlopi, Noisettes and Jay Sean. The artist released another EP You Need Me in 2009. At that time, Sheeran had already played over 300 live performances.
It wasn't until 2010 that Sheeran took the leap to the next level in his career. The media began to write about the young artist. The video that Sheeran posted online caught the attention of rapper Example. The young artist received an offer to go on tour as an introductory performer.
This led to even more fans on the Internet. In addition, the inspiration for the creation of many new songs. It was during that period that three new EPs were released.
Ed Sheeran: albums and songs
When Sheeran traveled to the US in 2010, he found a new admirer in Jamie Foxx. Idol invited Ed to his radio show on Sirius. In January 2011, Sheeran released another EP, his last independent album. Without any "promotion", the record took 2nd position on the iTunes chart. Ed Sheeran signed with Atlantic Records the same month.
In April 2011, he appeared on the television music show Later... with Jools Holland to perform his debut single, The A Team, which was later released digitally.
It became a huge hit. Sold over 58 thousand copies in the first week. It also reached the top ten in several countries. Among them: Australia, Japan, Norway and New Zealand.
His second single You need me, I don't need You, which was released in August 2011, also became quite popular. His third single, Lego Single, also did well, reaching the top 5 in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK. It also entered the top 50 in several other countries.
Album "+" ("Plus")
With Atlantic, Sheeran released his major debut studio album "+". An instant hit, the album sold over 1 million copies in the UK in its first 6 months alone.
Sheeran began writing songs with larger artists such as One Direction and Taylor Swift and was supported by Swift on her 2013 tour.
I See Fire and X ("Multiply")
The singer gained next popularity thanks to the song I See Fire, which was shown in the movie The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. And in June 2014, his next album X appeared - debuting at number 1 in the US and UK.
The project featured three singles: Don't, Photograph and Thinking Out Loud, with the latter winning a Grammy for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance in 2016.
Album '÷' ("Split")
In 2016, Sheeran was working on his third studio album '÷'. In January 2017, he released two singles from Shape of You and Castle on the Hill, which debuted at #1 and #6 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Sheeran subsequently released '÷' in March 2017 and announced his world tour. His new album broke Spotify's record for day one streaming albums with 56,7 million streams within 24 hours.
Composition Perfect Duet
At the end of 2017, Sheeran had another hit with the love song Perfect, also released in collaboration with Beyoncé Perfect Duet.
The original version hit No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Songs and Adult Pop Songs charts in mid-January 2018. Sheeran completed his Grammy award later that month by winning Best Pop Solo Performance for Shape of You and Best Pop Vocal Album for '÷'.
no. 6 Collaborations Project
In May 2019, the track Ed Sheeran feat was released Justin Bieber I Don't Care is the first single from the forthcoming studio album No. 6 Collaborations Project.
The immediate success of I Don't Care set a new one-day streaming record for Spotify.
E in the television series Game of Thrones
Yes. He made a cameo in the seventh season as a Lannister soldier in 2017.
The artist also played a major role in the musical The Beatles (2019).
Ed Sheeran: personal life
The musician, whose popularity has exceeded, and all the girls represent him as their husband, is not married. While at school, he dated a classmate for four years, but because of the music, he could not concentrate on relationships.
Ed Sheeran dated Nina Nesbitt, a Scottish singer-songwriter, in 2012. She was the subject of two of his songs Nina and Photograph. In turn, Nina's album Peroxide is largely dedicated to Ed.
After their breakup in 2014, he started dating Athena Andreos. The breakup happened in February 2015, and later he bought a farm in Suffolk (England), which he has well renovated. According to him, he plans to raise his family there.
During a creative break, Ed had a lover, hockey player Cherry Seaborn. They had known her since school days, but only in 2015 did their relationship move to a higher level.
He dedicated the song Perfect, included in the third album, to his chosen one. In the winter of 2018, the couple announced their engagement.
Ed Sheeran: lawsuits
As Sheeran's fame increased, so did the number of cases against the artist. The plaintiffs demanded compensation for copyright infringement. In 2014, songwriters Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard claimed that the song Photograph was taken from their track Amazing. In my words, the song was written for 2010 X Factor winner Matt Cardle. The case was settled out of court in 2017.
In 2016, the heirs of Ed Townsend, who wrote the 1973 Marvin Gay classic Let's Get It On, claimed that Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud was borrowed from the Gaye track. The case was closed in 2018, but Sheeran became a defendant in a new trial in June of that year.
In early 2018, Sean Carey and Beau Golden demanded $20 million in damages over claims that Sheeran's The Rest Of Our Life, co-written by country music stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, was copied from their song. When I Found You.
Ed Sheeran today
Ed Sheeran delighted fans with the release of a new track. The singer's single was called Bad Habits. At the end of June 2021, a video was also presented for the composition.
“I was blond for three days. I apologize to all red-haired people for my appearance, ”the artist comments.
At the end of October 2021, the artist released a new LP, which was called "=". Recall that this is the artist's fourth studio album. The disc includes 14 previously unpublished tracks that Ed recorded not alone, but not in a duet with other artists, as is popular now. Ed Sheeran began work on the album in 2020, a year after his record-breaking Divide tour.
In early February 2022, the presentation of a joint single and video by Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift The Joker And The Queen. This is a new version of the song, which was included in Sheeran's solo performance in his latest album "=".
Ed Sheeran and bring me The Horizon presented an alternative track to Bad Habits at the end of February 2022. Recall that for the first time this version sounded "live" during the BRIT Awards.
“We really liked our performance, so I think that fans need to definitely hear it,” Sheeran commented on the release.
