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Edward Christopher "Ed" Sheeran (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter and occasional actor. He was born in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk. After dropping out of school at 16, he moved to London the following year, in 2008, to pursue a career in music. In early 2011, Sheeran released independently the extended play ''No. 5 Collaborations Project'', which caught the attention of Elton John and Jamie Foxx. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, ''+'' (read as "plus"), was released on 9 September 2011 and has since been certified six-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. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. Sheeran's popularity abroad began in 2012. In the US, he made a guest appearance on Taylor Swift's fourth studio album, ''Red''. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John. He spent much of 2013 opening for Swift's The Red Tour in North America dates. In late 2013, he performed three sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden as a headline act. He was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2014 Grammy Awards. His second studio album, ''x'' (read as "multiply"), was released worldwide on 23 June 2014. It peaked at number one in the UK and the US. In 2015, ''x'' was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards, won the Brit Award for Album of the Year, and he received the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year. As part of his world tour, Sheeran played three sold-out concerts at London's Wembley Stadium in July 2015, his biggest solo shows to date. ==Early life== Sheeran was born in Hebden Bridge, a market town in Calderdale near Halifax, West Yorkshire. He moved, with his family, to Framlingham, Suffolk as a child. He has an older brother named Matthew, who was born on 17 March 1989. Matthew studied music in a university and is now a classical composer. Their parents, John and Imogen, are London-born but of Irish lineage. According to Sheeran, his father hailed from "a very large" Catholic family. His paternal grandfather, Bill, was a Protestant and his wife, Ann, was Catholic. Bill and Ann retired in Gorey, County Wexford. John is an art curator and lecturer, and Imogen is a culture publicist-turned-jewellery designer. His parents ran Sheeran Lock, an independent art consultancy, from 1990 to 2010. Their work usually took them to London, and spent their weekends travelling with their children. These trips were regular and the Sheerans played music while travelling. Sheeran's early childhood memories include listening to the records of Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton. According to Sheeran, the first album that introduced him to music was Van Morrison's ''Irish Heartbeat''. Sheeran sang in a local church choir from the age of four, learned guitar at a very young age, and began writing songs during his time at Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham. 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.〔("Ed Sheeran – The Interview" ). MTV. Retrieved 29 November 2014〕〔("Interview with UK Pop Sensation Ed Sheeran" ), axs. Retrieved 29 November 2014〕 He is a patron of the Youth Music Theatre UK and of Access to Music, where he studied Artist Development course. He was accepted at the National Youth Theatre in London as a teenager. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ed Sheeran」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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