Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran
MBE

Ed Sheeran smiling

Sheeran performing in Sydney, Australia, February 2013
Background information
Birth name Edward Christopher Sheeran
Born (1991-02-17) 17 February 1991
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England
Origin Framlingham, Suffolk, England
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer-songwriter
  • record producer
  • guitarist
Instruments
  • vocals
  • acoustic guitar
Years active 2004–present
Labels
Associated acts
Website edsheeran.com

Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born 17 February 1991)[5] is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk. He attended the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, Surrey, as an undergraduate from the age of 18 in 2009.[6][7] In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (read as "plus"), was released on 9 September 2011 and has since been certified seven-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.[8] In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act.[9]

Sheeran's popularity abroad began in 2012. In the US, he made a guest appearance on Taylor Swift's fourth studio album, Red.[10] "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John.[11][12] He spent much of 2013 opening for Swift's The Red Tour in North America dates.[13] His second studio album, x (read as "multiply"), was released on 23 June 2014.[14] It peaked at number one in the UK and the US. In 2015, x won the Brit Award for Album of the Year, and he received the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year.[15] His single from x, "Thinking Out Loud", earned him two Grammy Awards at the 2016 ceremony: Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

Sheeran's third album, ÷ (read as "divide"), was released in March 2017. The album debuted at number one in the UK, the US and other major markets. The first two singles from the album, "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill", were released in January 2017 and broke records in a number of countries, including the UK, Australia and Germany, by debuting in the top two positions of the charts. He also became the first artist to have two songs debut in the US top 10 in the same week. Sheeran appeared on Debrett's 2017 list of the most influential people in the UK.[16]

Early life

Sheeran was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire,[17] and moved with his family to Framlingham in Suffolk when he was a child.[18] He has an older brother named Matthew,[19] who works as a composer. Their parents, John and Imogen, are London-born. His paternal grandparents are Irish,[20][21][22] and Sheeran has stated his father hailed from a "very large" Catholic family.[23]

John is an art curator and lecturer, and Imogen is a culture publicist turned jewellery designer.[21][24] His parents ran Sheeran Lock, an independent art consultancy, from 1990 to 2010.[25] Their work usually took them to London, and they spent their weekends travelling with their children, while playing music. Sheeran's early childhood memories include listening to the records of Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton. According to Sheeran, the album that first introduced him to music was Van Morrison's Irish Heartbeat.[21] During his childhood, John took him to a number of live concerts that would later inspire his musical creations. These included seeing Eric Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall, Paul McCartney in Birmingham, and Bob Dylan.[26]

Sheeran sang in a local church choir from the age of four, learned to play the guitar at a very young age during his time at Rishworth School,[27] and began writing songs while at Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham.[28][29] When he was eleven, he went with his father to a Damien Rice show in Ireland. In addition to Rice, he has also cited The Beatles, Dylan, Nizlopi and Eminem as his biggest musical influences.[30][31] He is a patron of the Youth Music Theatre UK[32] and of Access to Music, where he studied Artist Development course.[33][34] He was accepted at the National Youth Theatre in London as a teenager.[35][36] Sheeran is a second cousin of broadcaster Gordon Burns,[37] who hosted the British game show The Krypton Factor.[21]

Music career

2004–2010: Career beginnings

Sheeran performing at the Ipswich Arts Festival in July 2010

Sheeran began recording music in 2004, and independently released his first collection of work, Spinning Man.[upper-alpha 1] He has been friends with fellow English singer, Passenger, since he was 15, with the two playing on the same gig in Cambridge.[39] He moved to London in 2008, and began playing in small venues. In 2008, he auditioned for the ITV series, Britannia High.[40] He also opened for Nizlopi in Norwich in April 2008, after being one of their guitar technicians.[29] He released another EP in 2009, You Need Me, just before going on tour with Just Jack. He also did a few collaborations with Essex singer, Leddra Chapman, including CeeLo Green's "Fuck You". In February 2010, Sheeran posted a video through SB.TV, and rapper Example invited Sheeran to tour with him. In the same month, he also released his critically acclaimed Loose Change EP, which featured his future debut single, "The A Team".[41] In the autumn of 2009, Sheeran began studying music at the Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) in Guildford, Surrey as an undergraduate,[6][7] though it is not clear how long he remained at the college.

Sheeran began to be seen by more people over the internet through YouTube and his fan-base grew, with him also getting credit from The Independent newspaper, England football captain Rio Ferdinand and Elton John.[42] Sheeran also self-released two other EPs in 2010, Ed Sheeran: Live at the Bedford and Songs I Wrote with Amy, which is a collection of love songs he wrote in Wales with singer, Amy Wadge.[43]

On 8 January 2011, Sheeran released another independent EP, No. 5 Collaborations Project, featuring grime artists such as Wiley, Jme, Devlin, Sway and Ghetts.[44] With this EP, Sheeran gained mainstream attention for reaching number 2 in the iTunes chart without any promotion or label, selling over 7,000 copies in its first week.[45] Three months later, Sheeran put on a free show to fans at the Barfly in Camden Town. Over 1,000 fans turned up, so Sheeran played four different shows to ensure everyone saw a gig, including a gig outside on the street after the venue had closed. Later that month, Sheeran was signed to Asylum Records.[45]

2011–2013: + and international success

Sheeran at Academy 1, Manchester Dot to Dot Festival, June 2011

On 26 April 2011, Sheeran appeared on the TV music show, Later... with Jools Holland, where he performed his debut single, "The A Team". Six weeks later, "The A Team" was released as a digital download in the UK. The release served as the lead single from Sheeran's debut studio album, + (read as "plus").[46] "The A Team" entered the UK Singles Chart at number three, selling over 58,000 copies in the first week. It was the best selling debut single and the overall eighth-best selling single of 2011, selling 801,000 copies.[47] The lead single also became a top ten hit in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway and the Netherlands. During a headline set in the BBC Introducing tent at Glastonbury Festival 2011, Sheeran announced that "You Need Me, I Don't Need You" would be released on 26 August as the second single from the album. The second single peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart.[48] "Lego House" was released as the third single,[49] reaching the top ten on Australian, Irish, Scottish, New Zealand Singles Charts, Flemish Ultratop 50 and the Wallonian Ultratip. "Drunk", released on 19 February 2012, became Sheeran's fourth consecutive top ten single in the UK, peaking at number nine.[50]

Sheeran released + on 12 September 2011. The album received generally favourable reviews from music critics.[51] + debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart for sales of 102,000 copies.[52] By end of 2011, sales of the album in the UK stand at 791,000; it became the second best-selling debut album and the ninth biggest-selling album there.[53] The album has been certified platinum six times by the British Phonographic Industry, denoting shipments of 1,800,000 copies.[54] As of March 2012, the album had sold 1,021,072 copies in the UK.[55] The album also reached the top five in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the US.[56][57][58]

Sheeran at the Frequency Festival in Austria, August 2012

The song, "Moments", on the debut album by boy band One Direction, released in November 2011, was co-written by Sheeran.[59] On 21 February, at the 2012 Brit Awards, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist, and British Breakthrough Act of the Year.[60][61] On 10 January 2012, it was announced that Sheeran would support Snow Patrol on their United States tour from late March until May on the band's Fallen Empires Tour.[62] His song, "Give Me Love", was featured in the episode "Dangerous Liaisons" of The Vampire Diaries.[63] It was also featured in 12 February 2013 episode of the sitcom Cougar Town (TBS). At the Ivor Novello Awards in May 2012, Sheeran's "The A Team" bested Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" and Florence and the Machine's "Shake It Out" for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.[64] Sheeran performed "The A Team" at the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II concert held on The Mall outside Buckingham Palace on 4 June 2012 and a cover of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics on 12 August 2012.[65]

Sheeran on stage in Sydney, Australia, February 2013

Taylor Swift contacted Sheeran after hearing his music while touring Australia in March 2012.[66] He later co-wrote and provided vocals for "Everything Has Changed", a single featured on Swift's fourth studio album, Red. Sheeran also contributed two songs to One Direction's second studio album, Take Me Home, released in November 2012; the single "Little Things" became the group's second number-one in the UK.[67] Sheeran's album peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, while "The A Team" reached No. 16 on the US Billboard Hot 100.[66] In late 2012 and early 2013, he headlined a US tour of 6,000–9,000 capacity venues.[66] "The A Team" received a nomination for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards.[68] Elton John, who runs Sheeran's management company, canvassed the award organisers to get Sheeran a performance slot at the ceremony but was told that Sheeran alone was not high-profile enough. John decided to appear with Sheeran to circumvent this problem.[69]

From March to September 2013, Sheeran played at arenas and stadiums across North America as the opening act for Swift's The Red Tour.[70][71] According to Sheeran, it was then his biggest tour and he added a scarlet RED tattoo to commemorate it.[72] In October 2013, Sheeran headlined three sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden, which has a capacity of 18,200.[71][73][74] At the concert, Sheeran debuted new songs including "Tenerife Sea",[75] a future track on his second studio album. Sheeran released "I See Fire" on 5 November 2013. The song is featured in the end credits of the film The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the film's soundtrack, and on the deluxe version of his second album.[76] Sheeran was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2014 Grammy Awards.[77]

2014–2015: x

Sheeran performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London, March 2014

On 24 March 2014, Sheeran performed at the Teenage Cancer Trust charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London where he unveiled "Take It Back", a track that would appear on the deluxe version of the second album.[78] "Sing", the lead single, was released on 7 April 2014. Sonically, the song is a departure from Sheeran's previous recordings.[79][80] "Sing" was intended to create hype over the album release, but from concern that this might alienate Sheeran's fan base, "One", an acoustic ballad, was released on 16 May 2014;[71][81] "One" also marked the first of several promotional singles released leading to the album release. By early June 2014, "Sing" had earned Sheeran his first number-one single in the UK.[82]

Sheeran's second studio album, x (read as "multiply"), was released worldwide on 23 June 2014. In a span of three years, Sheeran wrote more than 120 songs for the album,[83] the earliest of which was composed shortly after + was released.[84] The album features tracks produced by Rick Rubin, Pharrell Williams and Benny Blanco,[83] as well as that of Gosling's.[79] x peaked at number one in both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. To support the album, Sheeran embarked on a world tour starting on 6 August 2014 at Osaka, Japan. On 27 September 2014, Sheeran was one of the headline acts at the Melbourne Cricket Ground prior to the 2014 AFL Grand Final.[85]

Sheeran on stage at the Southside Festival in Germany, June 2014

Following "Don't", "Thinking Out Loud" was released on 24 September 2014 as the album's third single. Unlike his previous music videos, Sheeran took the lead role in the single's accompaniment, where he performed a ballroom dance.[86] It became his second single to reach number one in the UK,[87] and spent eight weeks at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 (with only "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars keeping it from top spot).[88] In 2014, combined streams on Sheeran's catalogue in Spotify reached 860 million; Spotify named him the most-streamed artist and x the most-streamed album.[89] In the same year, the album also earned Sheeran the distinction of being iTunes' biggest-selling artist in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand.[90][91]

x was nominated for Album of the Year at the 57th Grammy Awards.[92] On 25 February, Sheeran won British Male Solo Artist and British Album of the Year for x at the 2015 Brit Awards.[93] On 21 May 2015, at the Ivor Novello Awards, Sheeran received the award for Songwriter of the Year.[15] On 21 June, Sheeran co-hosted the 2015 Much Music Video Awards in Toronto, where he performed the singles, "Thinking Out Loud" and "Photograph"; he also won two awards, Best International Artist and Most Buzzworthy International Artist or Group.[94][95] On 27 June, Sheeran performed as the opening act for The Rolling Stones in their Zip Code Tour date in Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium.[96] On 10–12 July 2015, Sheeran performed sold-out shows at London's Wembley Stadium. The shows, which were announced in November 2014, were part of his world tour.[97] The concert was documented and aired on 16 August 2015 on NBC; the one-hour special Ed Sheeran – Live at Wembley Stadium also included behind-the-scenes footage.[98] In September 2015, Sheeran wrote "Love Yourself" for Justin Bieber's fourth album.[99] Sheeran had initially planned to put the song on his third album ÷ and added that the track would have been scrapped before Bieber took the song.[100]

On 26 September, Sheeran performed at the 2015 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park's Great Lawn in New York, an event organised by Coldplay lead singer, Chris Martin, that advocates an end to extreme global poverty. Sheeran headlined the festival along with Beyoncé, Coldplay, and Pearl Jam. The festival was broadcast on NBC in the US on 27 September and the BBC in the UK on 28 September.[101] Sheeran co-hosted the 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards on 25 October in Milan, Italy.[102] He won the awards for Best Live Act and Best Live Stage;[103] the latter was in recognition for his performance at the 2014 V Festival in England.[104] Sheeran won the Breakthrough award at the 2015 Billboard Touring Awards.[105]

His single from x, "Thinking Out Loud", earned him two Grammy Awards at the 2016 ceremony: Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. In May 2016, x was named the second best selling album worldwide in 2015, behind 25 by Adele.[106]

2016–present: Hiatus and ÷

On 13 December 2016, after a year long hiatus and social media break, Sheeran tweeted a picture and changed his Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to a light blue, implying the release of a new album – each of Sheeran's previous albums were a single coloured background with a solid mathematical symbol.[107] On 1 January 2017, Sheeran uploaded a video on social media websites which shows him holding a piece of paper with the words "New Music Coming Friday" written on it.[108] On 2 January 2017, he posted a 10-second video on Twitter and other social media showing what is assumed to be the cover design of his forthcoming album entitled ÷ (read as "divide") which was released 3 March 2017.[109][110] The album debuted at number one in the UK, the US, Germany, Australia, Canada and other major markets.[111][112][113] With first week sales of 672,000 it is the fastest selling album by a male solo artist in the UK, and third fastest in UK chart history behind 25 by Adele and Be Here Now by Oasis.[111] It also had the biggest first week sales of 2017 in the US.[112]

Framlingham Castle in Sheeran's home town, the castle referred to in the single "Castle on the Hill"

On 6 January, Sheeran released two singles, "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill"; the theme of the latter single is about Sheeran's upbringing in his home town of Framlingham in Suffolk, with the castle referring to Framlingham Castle.[114] Following the release of these singles, Sheeran went on to co-host the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Scott Mills where it was inferred that he would possibly make an appearance at the Glastonbury Festival in 2017.[115] It was also during this show that Sheeran used a new Martin guitar that featured the ÷ logo (of his new album) on both the headstock and body of the acoustic guitar.[116] Both singles went on to break the Spotify day one streaming record, with a combined total of over 13 million streams in 24 hours.[117] On 13 January, "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill" entered the UK Singles Chart at number one and number two, the first time in history an artist has taken the top two UK chart positions with new songs.[118] The same day he also became the first artist to debut at number one and number two on the official German Single Charts.[119] On 15 January, the songs debuted at number one and number two on the ARIA Singles Chart, the first time this has been achieved in the history of the Australian chart.[120] On 17 January, "Shape of You" debuted at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, while "Castle on the Hill" entered at number six; this made Sheeran the first artist ever to have two songs simultaneously debut in the US top 10.[121]

On 26 January, Sheeran announced tour dates for the album ÷ in Europe, South America and North America from 17 March until 14 June 2017.[122] On 17 February 2017, Sheeran released "How Would You Feel (Paean)". Though not an official single, the song peaked at number two in the UK.[123]

Other ventures

Gingerbread Man Records

In March 2015, Sheeran revealed he was setting up a record label, Gingerbread Man Records, which is a deal with Warner Music Group.[124] The label was launched in August 2015 alongside its accompanying YouTube channel.[125] Jamie Lawson, the label's first signee, met Sheeran while they were both in London's folk circuit.[126] Lawson released his self-titled debut album on 9 October 2015, which has earned him a number one in the UK Albums Chart.[127] Sheeran signed his second artist, Foy Vance, in November 2015.[128]

Charity

Sheeran performed a gig in Bristol, which raised £40,000 for a charity that reaches out to street sex workers. "It's good to show insight that these people are real people with real emotions and they deserve the same charity work as anyone else," Sheeran said. "There's a lot more popular charities that get a lot of attention. And with certain subjects like this they're often washed over and people don't necessarily give them the attention they deserve." Tickets were available to those taking part in the charity's Give it up for One25 campaign by giving something up for 125 hours and hitting the £40,000 fundraising mark.[129]

Sheeran frequently gives away his clothes to charity shops around Suffolk, his home county.[130] An ambassador for East Anglia's Children's Hospice, he has donated clothes to the St Elizabeth Hospice charity shop in Framlingham, including eight bags of clothes to the shop in February 2014, and eight items of clothing he wore at the 2015 Grammy Awards.[131]

On 15 November 2014, Sheeran joined the charity supergroup Band Aid 30 along with other British and Irish pop acts, recording the latest version of the track "Do They Know It's Christmas?" at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, to raise money for the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.[132]

In November 2015, Sheeran supported the No Cold Homes campaign by the UK charity, Turn2us.[133] Sheeran was one of nearly thirty celebrities, which included Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons and Hugh Laurie, to donate items of winter clothing to the campaign, with the proceeds used to help people in the country struggling to keep their home warm in winter.[134]

Acting

Sheeran made his acting debut in 2014, a cameo role as himself on New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street, filmed while he was in the country for a one-off performance.[135] In May 2015, he appeared as himself and performed on a live episode of the NBC sitcom Undateable.[136] Later that year, while in Australia, he recorded scenes for the soap Home and Away, as a character based on himself.[137]

After recording a cover version of Foy Vance's "Make It Rain" for Sons of Anarchy, Sheeran was cast by creator Kurt Sutter to play Sir Cormac in the medieval drama The Bastard Executioner on FX. He said of his role "It’s gruesome and it’s going to be fine because my friend wrote it... I feel like people would expect me to be in a rom-com or something, so I wanted to be in something people don’t expect me to".[138]

In July 2017, Sheeran appeared in a longer cameo on Game of Thrones in a scene together with actor Maisie Williams, who plays the character Arya Stark.[139] David Benioff explained that since Williams was a big fan of the singer, they wanted to have Sheeran appear on the show to surprise Williams, and that they had tried to get him on for years.[140] It received a mix of positive and very critical reviews.[141]

Personal life

In early 2011, after securing recording and publishing deals, Sheeran purchased a farm near Framlingham, Suffolk, and had it renovated. He has stated that he hopes to raise a family there.[71][142] He also bought a house in south London in 2014.[71] Sheeran lived between Hendersonville, Tennessee and Los Angeles for the duration of 2013.[143]

Sheeran was in a relationship with Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt (who was in his music video for "Drunk") in 2012, before breaking up.[144] Nesbitt is the subject of Sheeran's songs, "Nina" and "Photograph", while most of Nesbitt's album, Peroxide, is about Sheeran.[144] In January 2014, Sheeran was in a relationship with Athina Andrelos, who works for British chef Jamie Oliver.[145] She is the inspiration of Sheeran's song, "Thinking Out Loud".[146] They broke up in February 2015.[146]

In June 2015, Forbes listed his earnings at $57 million for the previous 12 months, and ranked him the 27th-highest-earning celebrity in the world.[147] On 19 October 2015, Sheeran received an honorary degree from the University of Suffolk in Ipswich for his "outstanding contribution to music".[148] Sheeran commented: "Suffolk is very much where I call home. Receiving this recognition is a real privilege."[148]

In November 2016, it was reported that Sheeran had to have stitches on his right cheek after an accident at a party held at the home of Princess Beatrice of York at Royal Lodge, in Windsor, Berkshire. According to this account, singer-songwriter James Blunt was also at the party and joked that he would love a knighthood, at which point Beatrice jokingly said she could arrange it and fetched a ceremonial sword. Blunt got down on one knee while Beatrice held the sword above him and said 'arise Sir James', before she swung the sword over her shoulder unaware that Sheeran was standing behind her.[149] However, Blunt later claimed that the story was made up, and that Sheeran had cut himself while drunk.[150]

Awards and honours

Sheeran was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to music and charity.[151]

Discography

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes Ref(s)
2014 Shortland Street Himself [135]
2015 Undateable Himself [136]
Home and Away Teddy [137]
The Bastard Executioner Sir Cormac 5 episodes [138]
Jumpers for Goalposts: Live at Wembley Stadium Himself Concert Film [152]
2016 Bridget Jones's Baby Himself [153]
2017 Game of Thrones Lannister soldier Episode: "Dragonstone" [154]

Tours

Headlining act

Opening act

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "In 2004, I made my very first album, Spinning Man, named after a picture that my dad had. I burnt the CDs myself and made the covers. There were 14 songs and they were all songs that rhymed. One lyric went: ‘I’m a typical average teen, if you know what I mean.’ There are probably 20 copies of Spinning Man in existence and I have 19 of them. I don’t want anyone else to get hold of a copy. Most of the songs were about a girl called Claire. She was my first love when I was 13. It was a very innocent love and we only ever held hands, but it lasted a fair amount of time. Then came my first devastating break-up. Looking back, it really wasn’t that bad, but at the time it was soul-shattering. When she left me, I wrote a lot of songs off the back of it – my first love songs."[38]

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