Ed Sheehan +
- Sarah Lopez
- Apr 3, 2017
- 2 min read
“U.K. artist Ed Sheeran is a Grammy-winning singer/songwriter known for hit songs like Thinking Out Loud and Photograph.”-Billboard writer, John O’Brien
Ed Sheeran is a contemporary artist who started out at a very young age. He supposedly became musically inspired at the age of 11, by singer-songwriter Damien Rice, after he told Sheeran to start writing his own music. He even hit No. 1 on the iTunes chart before ever signing with a record label.
Ed Sheeran graces the cover of Rolling Stone (Image 1)
Ed Sheeran released his first official EP titled The Orange Room, in 2005. With hopes of pursuing a musical career, he set out for London for a summer at the age of 14. In the next two years he released two albums. One was a self titled record released in 2006, while the other was called Want Some?, which was released in 2007. He started becoming more and more well known for a unique style of music that fused folk, rock, pop, and rap into a sound that was never heard before.
Ed Sheeran poses with his guitar (Image 2)
In 2009, Sheeran played more than 300 live shows, touring with people like Nizlopi, the Noisettes, and Jay Sean. That same year he released an EP titled You Need Me. In 2010, Ed Sheeran began to move his career into the eyes of online media. In January of 2011, he released his last EP as an independent artist that reached No. 2 on the iTunes chart.
After signing with Atlantic Records, Ed sheeran continued his journey in creating music and decided to name his albums after mathematical symbols. He released his first major debut studio album titled + (pronounced plus). It sold more than a million copies in the U.K. in the first six months alone. The song “I See Fire” was featured in the movie The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. In the summer of 2014 his next album, x (pronounced multiply), debuted at No. 1 in the U.S. and U.K. charts. In 2016, he won a Grammy for Song of the Year, specifically for the top 5 hit, “Thinking Out Loud”, and Best Pop Solo Performance. Just recently, he released his newest album, ÷ (pronounced divide), and a 2017 world tour. This album has broken Spotify records for first-day album streams with 56.7 million listens in 24 hours
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