English artist Ed Sheeran is a Grammy-winning singer/songwriter known for hit songs like 'Thinking Out Loud,' 'Photograph,' 'Shape of You' and 'Perfect.'
Ed Sheeran is a singer/songwriter who began playing guitar at a young age and soon after started writing his own songs. When he was just a teenager, he moved to London to pursue his music, and his outpouring of creativity added up to several early EPs and hundreds of live shows. Drawing attention for his online performances, Sheeran hit No. 1 on the iTunes chart before he ever signed with a record label. Since signing with Atlantic, Sheeran has sold millions of records and won Grammys for hits like "Thinking Out Loud" and "Shape of You," as well as his 2018 album, ÷.
Early Years and Career in LondonEd Sheeran was born on February 17, 1991, in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom. When he was young, he began playing guitar, showing early promise as a musical talent. When he was 11, Sheeran met singer-songwriter Damien Rice backstage at one of Rice’s shows, and the young musician found added inspiration. As the story goes, Rice told Sheeran to write his own music, and Sheeran set out the next day to do just that.
It wasn’t long before Sheeran was recording CDs and selling them, and he soon put together his first official EP, The Orange Room. With that accomplishment and his abiding ambition driving him, at only 14 years of age, Sheeran headed to London for the summer. Thinking he could find gigs in the big city, Sheeran left home with his guitar and a backpack full of clothes, and his musical career took flight.
Once in London, Sheeran got busy recording and playing the local singer/songwriter circuit and quickly released two albums: a self-titled record in 2006 and Want Some? in 2007. He also began opening for more established acts, such as Nizlopi, the Noisettes and Jay Sean, and released another EP, You Need Me, in 2009, a year that found Sheeran playing more than 300 live shows.
It wasn’t until 2010 that Sheeran made the leap to the next level in his career, and it came via online media, a route Sheeran had learned to use with great effectiveness. When a video he posted online got the attention of Example, a rapper, Sheeran was asked to go on the road with him as his opening act. This led to an even larger online fan base and inspiration for many more songs, which ended up filling three new EPs, all in 2010.
Albums and SongsWhen Sheeran headed to the United States in 2010, he found a new fan in Jamie Foxx, who asked Sheeran to appear on his Sirius radio show. Soon after, in January 2011, Sheeran released yet another EP, his last as an independent artist. Without any promotion, the record reached No. 2 on the iTunes chart, and he signed on with Atlantic Records that same month.
'+' (Plus)With Atlantic, Sheeran released his major debut studio album, +. An instant hit, the album sold more than a million copies in the United Kingdom in the first six months alone. Sheeran began co-writing songs with bigger artists, such as One Direction and Taylor Swift, and supported Swift on her 2013 arena tour.
'I See Fire' and 'x' (Multiply)On a roll, Sheeran’s next success would come when his song "I See Fire" was featured in the movie The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and in June 2014, his next album, x, appeared, debuting at No. 1 in the United States and the United Kingdom. The project featured three Top 10 singles — "Don't," "Photograph" and "Thinking Out Loud" — with the latter winning the Grammy for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance in 2016.
'÷' (Divide)In 2016, Sheeran took a hiatus to work on his third studio album, ÷. In January 2017, he released two singles from the album, "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill," which debuted at No. 1 and No. 6, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100. Sheeran subsequently released ÷ in March 2017, and announced a world tour. His new album broke a Spotify record for first-day album streams with 56.7 million listens in 24 hours.
In late 2017, Sheeran delivered another hit with the love song "Perfect," also released as a joint effort with Beyoncé, titled "Perfect Duet." The original version hit No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Songs and Adult Pop Songs charts in mid-January 2018. Later that month, Sheeran added to his Grammy haul by winning Best Pop Solo Performance for "Shape of You" and Best Pop Vocal Album for ÷.
'No.6 Collaborations Project'
May 2019 brought the release of the Sheeran-Justin Bieber track "I Don't Care," the first single from Sheeran's upcoming studio album, No.6 Collaborations Project. An immediate success, "I Don't Care" established a new single-day streaming record for Spotify. The English hitmaker followed with the releases of "Cross Me," with Chance the Rapper and PnB Rock, and "Beautiful People," featuring Khalid, with No.6 ultimately producing eight singles before picking up a Grammy nod for Best Pop Vocal Album.
Films and TV ShowsSheeran has surfaced in numerous films as himself, including Bridget Jones's Baby (2016) and the Beatles-inspired musical Yesterday (2019). He also landed a recurring role in the 2015 FX series The Bastard Executioner, and later appeared in an episode of Game of Thrones and the Amazon anthology series Modern Love.
Copyright LawsuitsAs Sheeran's fame swelled, so did the number of cases against the Grammy-winning artist seeking compensation for copyright infringement. In 2014, songwriters Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard alleged that Sheeran's "Photograph" was ripped off from their track "Amazing," written for 2010 X Factor winner Matt Cardle. The case was settled out of court in 2017.
In 2016, the heirs of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote Marvin Gaye's 1973 classic "Let's Get It On," claimed that Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" borrowed extensively from the Gaye track. The case was dismissed the following year, but Sheeran was hit with a new lawsuit in June 2018 over the same song from Structured Asset Sales, which owned part of Townsend's catalog.
In early 2018, Sean Carey and Beau Golden sought $20 million in damages over claims that "The Rest of Our Life," co-written by Sheeran for country music stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, copied their song "When I Found You," recorded by Jasmine Rae. The lawsuit was settled late in the year.
On December 7, 2017, Sheeran was made a member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his services to music and charity.
After receiving the honor from Prince Charles, Sheeran gushed about the occasion, but also noted it was bittersweet: "My grandfather ... he died on this day four years ago, so it's actually quite a nice full circle thing," he said, according to the prince's Twitter account. "I guess he'd be pretty proud."
A few weeks later, Sheeran announced that he had celebrated another momentous occasion by getting engaged to girlfriend Cherry Seaborn just before the new year. In August, he revealed that the two had secretly gotten married since then, telling the surprised interviewer that he's never "too public" about such personal details. In August 2020, the pair welcomed their first child, daughter Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran.
英國藝術家埃德·希蘭(Ed Sheeran)是一位葛萊美獎得主兼詞曲作者，以「思考出聲音」、「攝影」、「你的形狀」和「完美」等熱門歌曲而聞名。
愛德·希蘭是誰？埃德·希蘭(EdSheeran)是一名歌手/詞曲作者，他從小就開始彈吉他，不久就開始創作自己的歌曲。當他還是個十幾歲的孩子的時候，他就搬到倫敦去追求他的音樂，他的創造力的流露加在了幾個早期的EPs和數以百計的現場表演中。在與唱片公司籤約之前，希蘭的在線表演吸引了人們的注意，他在iTunes排行榜上排名第一。自與「大西洋月刊」籤約以來，Sheeran賣出了數百萬張唱片，並憑藉「思考出你的聲音」(Thinking Out)和「你的形狀」(Shape Of You)等熱門歌曲贏得葛萊美獎。
早年在倫敦的事業不久，希蘭開始錄製CD並出售唱片，他很快就製作了他的第一張官方專輯，橙色房間。憑藉這一成就和他堅持不懈的雄心壯志，在他14歲的時候，希蘭前往倫敦度過了這個夏天。希蘭以為他能在大城市找到演出，於是他帶著吉他和裝滿衣服的背包離開了家，他的音樂事業開始騰飛。
一到倫敦，希蘭就忙於錄製和演奏當地歌手/詞曲創作人的專輯，並迅速發行了兩張專輯：2006年的一張名為「自我命名」的唱片。想來點嗎？2007年。他還開始為更成熟的演員開場，比如Nizlopi，Noisettes和JaySean，並發行了另一部動畫片，你需要我，2009年，希蘭演出了300多場直播節目。
直到2010年，希蘭才在他的職業生涯中躍上了一個新的臺階，它是通過網絡媒體而來的，這是希蘭學會有效運用的一條途徑。當他在網上發布的一段視頻引起了一位說唱歌手的注意時，希蘭被要求和他一起上路，作為他的開場白。這導致了更大的在線粉絲群和更多歌曲的靈感，最終填補了三個新的EPs，都在2010年。
專輯和歌曲
當希蘭在2010年前往美國時，他發現了一個新的粉絲傑米·福克斯他邀請Sheeran出現在他的天狼星廣播節目中。不久之後，在2011年1月，希蘭發行了另一張EP，他的最後一個獨立藝術家。在沒有任何晉升的情況下，這一記錄在iTunes排行榜上達到了第二位，同一個月他與大西洋唱片公司籤訂了合同。
「+」(加號)與大西洋，希蘭發布了他的主要首張錄音室專輯，+。這張專輯在一開始的六個月內就在英國賣出了一百多萬張。希蘭開始與更大的藝術家合作創作歌曲，比如單向和泰勒·斯威夫特支持斯威夫特2013年的競技場巡演。
「我看到火」和「x」(乘)在影片中，希蘭的下一次成功將是他的歌曲「我看到了火」。霍比特人：斯莫格的荒涼在2014年6月，他的下一張專輯，x，在美國和英國首次亮相。該項目有三首前十單曲--「不要」、「攝影」和「思考之聲」--後者在2016年獲得了年度最佳葛萊美獎和最佳流行獨奏獎。
「分劃」2016年，希蘭中斷了他的第三張錄音室專輯「音樂」的創作。2017年1月，他發行了專輯「你的形狀」和「山上的城堡」中的兩首單曲，分別排在第一和第六位。公告牌
2017年末，希蘭推出了另一首熱播的情歌「完美」，這也是作為一項共同努力而發行的。碧昂斯名為「完美二重奏」原始版本在公告牌流行歌曲和成人流行歌曲排行榜在2018年1月中旬。當月晚些時候，希蘭憑藉「你的形狀」和「最佳流行專輯」贏得了葛萊美獎，贏得了最佳流行獨奏表演。÷.
「第6號合作項目」
希蘭以自己的身份出現在許多電影中，包括布裡奇特·瓊斯的寶貝(2016)和甲殼蟲樂隊的靈感昨天(2019年)。他還在2015年的FX系列中扮演了一個反覆出現的角色。賤民劊子手，後來又出現在權力遊戲和亞馬遜選集系列現代愛情.
版權訴訟隨著希蘭的名氣不斷擴大，這位格萊美獲獎藝術家因侵犯版權而尋求賠償的案件也越來越多。2014年，詞曲作者馬丁·哈林頓和託馬斯·倫納德聲稱希蘭的「照片」被從他們為2010年寫的「神奇」曲目中撕去X因子獲勝者馬特·卡德爾。此案於2017年庭外和解。
2016年，埃德·湯森德的繼承人馬文蓋伊1973年的經典名著「讓我們繼續下去」聲稱，希蘭的「思考出了盧德」(Thinking Out Loud)從蓋伊(Gaye)的專輯中借用了很多。第二年，該案被駁回，但謝蘭在2018年6月因擁有湯森目錄一部分的結構性資產銷售(Structure Asset Sales)的同一首歌曲而受到新一輪訴訟。
2018年初，肖恩·凱裡(Sean Carey)和博·金(Beau Gold)就希蘭(Sheeran)為鄉村音樂明星合著的「我們的餘生」索賠，要求賠償2000萬美元。蒂姆·麥格勞和信山複製了他們的歌「當我找到你的時候」，由JasminRae錄製。訴訟於今年晚些時候結案。
皇家榮譽與個人生活
2017年12月7日，希蘭因其對音樂和慈善事業的貢獻，成為大英帝國最優秀的成員之一。
在獲得榮譽之後查爾斯王子謝蘭滔滔不絕地談論這一事件，但同時也指出這是喜憂參半的：「我祖父……四年前的這一天，他去世了，所以這實際上是一個很好的完整循環，」據王子的推特帳號說。「我想他會很驕傲的。」