Edwars Christoper Sheeran (Ed Sheeran) was born on February 17, 1991, in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in England. When he was younger, he started playing guitar, showing his musical talent. At the age of 11, Sheeran met singer and songwriter Damien Rice backstage at one of Rice's shows, and the young musician found extra inspiration. As the story goes, Rice tells Sheeran to write her own music, and Sheeran the next day does just that.
Afterwards Sheeran had recorded a CD and sold it, and he immediately put together his first official EP, The Orange Room. With that achievement and his harsh ambitions to drive him, at the age of 14, Sheeran headed for London for the summer. He Thinks he can do a show in a big city, Sheeran left home with his guitar and backpack full of clothes, and his music career began.
When in London, Sheeran was busy recording songs and writing songs, he quickly released two albums: A Noted self-titled in 2006 and Want Some? In 2007. He also started opening up for more acts, such as Nizlopi, Noisettes and Jay Sean, You Need Me, in 2009, the year Sheeran played in more than 300 live performances.
In 2010 Sheeran jump to the next level of his career, and it happened through online media, a route Sheeran has learned to use with great effectiveness. When a video he posted online gets attention from Example, a rapper, Sheeran asked to go see him as early. This led to having many fans at internet and being an inspiration to create more songs, which eventually filled three new singles, all in 2010.
When Sheeran goes to the U.S. that year, he found a new fan on Jamie Foxx, who asked Sheeran to appear on his Sirius radio show. Soon after, in January 2011, Sheeran released another EP, the latter as an independent artist. Without any promotion, the record reached No. 2 on the iTunes chart, and he signed with Atlantic Records in the same month.
With Atlantic, Sheeran released her major debut album, +. Instant hit, the album sold over a million copies in the UK in the first six months alone. Sheeran started writing songs with bigger artists, such as One Direction and Taylor Swift, and supported Swift in the 2013 tour.
Sheeran's subsequent success continued with her song "I See Fire" featured in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and in June 2014, the next album, x, appeared, debuted at # 1 in the US and UK The project featured three Top singles 10 - "Dont," "Photograph" and "Thingking of Loud" - with the latter winning the Grammy for Song of the Year and Best Solo Pop Performance in 2016.
In 2016, Sheeran took a hiatus to work on her third album,. In January 2017, she released two singles from the album "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill," which debuted at number one and number six, respectively, on Billboard Hot 100, Sheeran released her in March 2017 , and Announced 2017 world tour. His new album broke the Spotify record for the first album album with 56.7 million listeners in 24 hours.
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