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姓 名:Edward Christopher Sheeran
别 名:黄老板、泰迪熊、咩咩
国 籍:英国
星 座:水瓶座
出 生 地:英国英格兰西约克郡
出生日期:1991-02-17
艺人简介
Edward "Ed" Sheeran,1991年2月17日出生于西约克郡,是大西洋唱片旗下的一位歌手同时也是一位创作人。2011年6月,他的首只单曲在The A Team空降英国单曲榜第三名。
Sheeran自幼就开始学习吉他,并且在高中时期就开始学习创作歌曲。在一次节目采访中他提到童年记忆,其中包括在无数次和父母去伦敦的途中听Van Morrison和在他11岁时和Damien Rice一起在爱尔兰看公演。
Sheeran在2005年开始录音,也在当年发行了他的首张EP The Orange Room。接着在2006年发行了自命名的专辑,在2007年发行了 Want Some? 专辑。2008年搬到伦敦参加公演,一开始在很小的场地演奏,即使观众只有5个人也仍然会每天练习和演奏。
在2009年,他参加了许多公演。Ed说他曾读到过一篇James Morrison的专访,里面提到James曾在1年里参加过200场公演。这让主流说唱艺人Example邀请他一起巡演。在2010年2月,Ed发行了他的第二张独立唱片 Loose Change 这张EP,正是这张专辑里面包含了他那首最脍炙人口的The A Team,这首歌的音乐录影带只花了20英镑。这也是他签约后首次发片。
2010年4月,他离开了以前的经纪公司,举目无亲来到了洛杉矶,一直在参加open mic nights。直到被Jamie Foxx发现并邀请他在接下来的日子里待在他家里录音。整个2010,Sheeran都通过YouTube获得了越来越多的瞩目,歌迷数目激增,甚至得到了《独立报》,英格兰国家队队长里奥•费迪南德和Elton John的看好。在2010年,他发行了多张EP,包括一张现场EP Ed Sheeran: Live at the Bedford 和一张他在威尔士与同样身为歌手和创作人的Amy Wadge合作的情歌合集 Songs I Wrote With Amy 。
2011年2月,Sheeran发行了他的最后一张独立EP No.5 Collaborations Project 。没有任何宣传,这张EP让Sheeran得到了主流的关注,第一天就卖出了7000多张,并且在iTunes榜上登上了第一名的宝座。
2011年4月12日,Ed在卡姆登市的Barfly酒吧举行了一场答谢歌迷的免费演出。有1000多名歌迷来捧场,所以Ed Sheeran以四种不同的表演形式(甚至包括一场酒吧打烊后在街上的演出)来结束演出以确保每一位歌迷都能享受到这场演出。Sheeran低估了现场歌迷的人数以至最后被围得水泄不通。
Sheeran的第一支音乐录影带 "You Need Me, I Don't Need You"在 YouTube 上取得了成功。他和Example合作的Nando's Skank在YouTube上的已有超过百万的浏览量。
2011年1月Sheeran签约了大西洋唱片公司,首先发行了一张名为No.5 Collaborations Project 的合集。2011年4月26日,Sheeran参加了一档名为Later...with Jools Holland的音乐节目,他在节目上演唱了"The A Team"。接着在2011年6月12日,"The A Team"在英国发行,这次发行是为了Sheeran即将发行的首张录音室专辑做准备。"The A Team"以第三名的成绩进入英国单曲榜,并且首周就卖出了超过58000张。这是2011年以来卖得最好的也是名次最高的处女碟。Sheeran宣布"You Need Me"会在2011年8月28日,作为专辑中的第二张单曲发行。
2012年在第32届全英音乐奖中荣获英国最佳男艺人、英国最具突破艺人、英国最佳单曲和英国最佳专辑四项提名。
2014年第二张专辑《X》在英国销售达170万张。2015年在全英音乐奖颁奖盛典荣获“年度最佳男歌手”两项大奖。
2016年2月,在第58届格莱美音乐奖获得年度单曲和最佳流行歌手奖。
Early life
Sheeran was born in Hebden Bridge, a market town in Calderdale near Halifax, West Yorkshire. His family moved to Framlingham in Suffolk when he was a child.
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 they spent their weekends travelling with their children, while playing music. Sheeran's early childhood memories include listening to the records of Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton. According to Sheeran, the album that first introduced him to music was Van Morrison's Irish Heartbeat.
Sheeran sang in a local church choir from the age of four, learned to play the guitar at a very young age, and began writing songs while 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.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.
2004–2010: Career beginnings
Sheeran began recording music in 2004, and independently released his first collection of work, Spinning Man.He has been friends with fellow English singer, Passenger, since he was 15, with the two playing on the same gig in Cambridge.He moved to London in 2008, and began playing in small venues. In 2008, he auditioned for the ITV series, Britannia High. He also opened for Nizlopi in Norwich in April 2008, after being one of their guitar technicians.He released another EP in 2009, You Need Me, just before going on tour with Just Jack. He also did a few collaborations with Essex singer, Leddra Chapman, including CeeLo Green's "Fuck You". In February 2010, Sheeran posted a video through SB.TV, and rapper, Example, invited Sheeran to tour with him. In the same month, he also released his critically acclaimed Loose Change EP, which featured his future debut single, "The A Team".
In April 2010, Sheeran bought a ticket to Los Angeles, with no contacts other than one poetry night. He played open mic nights all over the city, before he was spotted at The Foxxhole by Jamie Foxx, who was so impressed that he offered Sheeran the use of his recording studio and the bed of his Hollywood home for the rest of his stay. Throughout 2010, Sheeran began to be seen by more people over the internet through YouTube and his fan-base grew, with him also getting credit from The Independent newspaper, England football captain Rio Ferdinand and Elton John.
2011–2013: + and international success
On 26 April 2011, Sheeran appeared on the TV music show, Later... with Jools Holland, where he performed his debut single, "The A Team". Six weeks later, "The A Team" was released as a digital download in the UK. The release served as the lead single from Sheeran's debut studio album, + (read as "plus").
Sheeran released + on 12 September 2011. The album received generally favourable reviews from music critics. + debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart for sales of 102,000 copies.
On 21 February, at the 2012 Brit Awards, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist, and British Breakthrough Act of the Year.
On 10 January 2012, it was announced that Sheeran would support Snow Patrol on their United States tour from late March until May on the band's Fallen Empires Tour.His song, "Give Me Love", was featured in the episode "Dangerous Liaisons" of The Vampire Diaries.
It was also featured in the 12 February 2013 episode of the sitcom Cougar Town (TBS). At the Ivor Novello Awards in May 2012, Sheeran's "The A Team" bested Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" and Florence and the Machine's "Shake It Out" for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.
Sheeran performed "The A Team" at the United Kingdom's Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II on 4 June 2012 and a cover of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics on 12 August 2012.
2014–present: x
On 24 March 2014, Sheeran performed at the Teenage Cancer Trust charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London where he unveiled "Take It Back", a track that would appear on the deluxe version of the second album.
Sheeran's second studio album, x (read as "multiply"), was released worldwide on 23 June 2014. In a span of three years, Sheeran wrote more than 120 songs for the album,the earliest of which was composed shortly after + was released.x was nominated for Album of the Year at the 57th Grammy Awards.
On 25 February, Sheeran won British Male Solo Artist and British Album of the Year for x at the 2015 Brit Awards.
On 21 May 2015, at the Ivor Novello Awards, Sheeran received the award for Songwriter of the Year.
On 21 June, Sheeran co-hosted the 2015 Much Music Video Awards in Toronto, where he performed the singles, "Thinking Out Loud" and "Photograph"; he also won two awards, Best International Artist and Most Buzzworthy International Artist or Group.
In 2016,Sheeran won the Best Pop Solo Performance at 58th Grammy Awards .