Ed Sheeran

Edward Christopher Sheeran MBE ˈʃɪərən born 17 February 1991 is an English singer songwriter guitarist record producer and actor He attended the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford as an undergraduate from the age of 18 in 2009 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 eighttimes 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 His second studio album x pronounced multiply was released in June 2014 It peaked at number one in the UK and the US and was named the secondbestselling album worldwide of 2015 In 2015 x won the Brit Award for Album of the Year and he received the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters Composers and Authors 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 Sheerans third album pronounced divide was released in March 2017 The album debuted at number one in the UK the US and other major markets and was the bestselling album worldwide of 2017 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 By March 2017 Sheeran had accumulated ten top 10 singles from on the UK Singles Chart breaking the record for most top 10 UK singles from one album His fourth single from Perfect reached number one in the US Australia and the UK where it became the Christmas number one in 2017 Released in 2019 his fourth studio album No6 Collaborations Project debuted atop the UK and US charts Sheeran has sold more than 150 million records worldwide making him one of the worlds bestselling music artists Two of his albums are in the list of the bestselling albums in UK chart history x at number 20 and at number 34 Beginning in March 2017 his Tour became the highestgrossing of all time in August 2019 An alumnus of the National Youth Theatre in London as an actor Sheeran has portrayed a recurring role on The Bastard Executioner and in 2019 he appeared in the Richard CurtisDanny Boyle film Yesterday