Edward Christopher Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and raised in Suffolk. He began writing songs as a child, self-released material as a teenager, and broke through with his 2011 debut album ‘+’, which topped the UK charts.

Sheeran has sold over 200 million records worldwide and is credited with reshaping mainstream pop through an acoustic, singer-songwriter sensibility; his ÷ Tour became the highest-grossing concert tour of all time, and he was named the Official Charts Company’s artist of the 2010s.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Sheeran