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biography of Ed Sheeran UK artist ed Sheeran is a Grammy winning singer /
songwriter known for his songs like thinking out loud and photograph
who is Ed Sheeran dead Sheeran was born in February 1991 in Bali fat's England
he began playing guitar at a young age and soon after started writing his own
songs when he was just a teenager he moved to London to pursue his music and
his outpouring of creativity added up to several early EPS and hundreds of lit
shows getting a lot of attention with his online performances shirin hit
number one on the iTunes chart before he ever signed with a record label since
signing with Atlantic Sharon has sold millions of records had a song appear in
the second installment of The Hobbit trilogy and won the Grammy for song of
the year specifically for the top five hit thinking out loud
early years ed Sheeran was born on February 17 1991 in Bali faqs West
Yorkshire in the United Kingdom when he was young he began playing guitar
showing early promise as a musical talent when he was 11 Sharon met
singer-songwriter damien rice backstage at one of Rice's shows and the young
musician found added inspiration as the story goes rice told Sharon to write his
own music and surance set out the next day to do just that it wasn't long
before sharon was recording ceadeus and selling them and he soon put together
his first official EP the orange room with that accomplishment and his
advising ambitions driving him but only 14 years of age Sharon headed to London
for the summer thinking he could find gifts in the big city Sharon left home
with his guitar and a backpack full of clothes
and his musical career took flight London once in London Sharon got busy
recording and playing the local singer / songwriter circuit and quickly released
two albums a self-titled record in 2006 and want some in 2007 he also began
opening for more de stablished acts such as Nicola peep Benoit zetz and je chante
and released another EP you need me in 2009 the year that found Sheeran
playing more than 300 live shows it wasn't until 2010 that Sheeran made the
lead to the next level in his career and it came via online media the roots
Sharon had learned to use with great effectiveness when a video he posted
online got the attention of example the rapper Sheeran was asked to go on the
road with him as his opening backed this led to an even larger online fan base
and inspiration for many more songs which ended up filling three new DPS all
in 2010 the next level when Sheeran headed to the US that year he found a
new fan in Jamie Foxx to ask Sharon to appear on his serious radio show
soon after in January 2011 Sharon released yet another defeat his
last as an independent artist without any promotion the record reached number
two on the EE Tunes chart and he signed on with Atlantic Records that's a month
with Atlantic Sharon released his major debut studio album + an instant hit the
album sold more than a million copies in the UK in the first six months alone
shura began code writing songs with bigger artists such as one direction and
Taylor Swift and supported Swift on her 2013 arena tour on a roll shirin's next
success would come when his song I see fire was featured in the movie the
hobbit the desolation of smaug and in June 20
14 his next album X appeared debuting at number one in the US and UK the project
featured three top 10 singles don't photograph and thinking out loud with
the latter winning the Grammy for song of the year and Best Pop solo
performance in 2016 in 2016 Sharon took a hiatus to work on his
third studio album / announced divided in January 2017 he released two singles
from the album shape of you and castle on the hill which debuted at number one
and number six respectively on the Billboard Hot 100
Shirin released / in March 2017 and announced a 2017 world tour his new
album broke us / TP record for first-day album streams with 56 point seven
million listens in 24 hours royal honors on December 7th 2017 Sharon was made a
member of the most excellent Order of the British Empire for his services to
music and charity after receiving the honor from Prince Charles
Sharon gushed about the occasion but also noted it was bittersweet
my grandfather he died on this day four years ago so it's actually quite a nice
full circle thing he said according to the prince's twitter account i guess
he'd be pretty proud