- Source of Wealth: Music
- Age: 28
- Birth Place: Halifax, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
- Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Weight: 180 lbs (82 kg)
- Marital Status: Married (Cherry Lancaster Seaborn)
- Full Name: Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE
- Nationality: British
- Date of Birth: February 17, 1991
- Ethnicity: English, Irish
- Occupation: Singer-Songwriter, Producer and Musician
- Education: Thomas Mills High School
Ed Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter with an estimated net worth of $110 million.
Born Edward Christopher Sheeran on February 17, 1991, in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, he sang in a local church choir when he was four, learned to play the guitar while at Rishworth School, and began writing songs when he was at Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham. He was part of the National Youth Theatre in London during his teens. He became successful when he auditioned at the Youth Music Theatre UK in 2007 and joined the production of Frankenstein in Plymouth. He studied Artist Development at the Youth Music Theatre UK (now renamed British Youth Music Theatre) and of Access to Music.
In 2008, Sheeran moved to London to pursue a career in music. In 2011, his extended independent play titled No. 5 Collaborations Project was released. It caught the attention of Jamie Foxx and Elton John. After signing with the Asylum Records, his first album was released in 2011. The album contained the singles “Lego House”, and “The A-Team”. The album instantly became a quintuple platinum hit across the United Kingdom. For his “The A-Team”, he received the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, he also won the 2 Brit Awards for the British Breakthrough and Best British Male category. “The A-Team” is also a Grammy Awards nominee for the Song of the Year category.
Ed Sheeran released his second album x (pronounced “multiply”) in 2014 and topped the UK and the US markets. After a year, the album won the Brit Award for Album of the Year while Sheeran earned the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. He earned two Grammy Awards at the 2016 ceremony: Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for his single “Thinking Out Loud”. The album was also named the second-best-selling album worldwide of 2015.
On March 2017, Sheeran released his third album, ÷ (pronounced “divide”) and it debuted at number one in major markets around the world. His fourth album “Perfect” was released in the same year and became number one in the US, UK, and Australia. It was also named the best-selling album worldwide for that year. Considered one of the world’s best-selling music artists, he has sold more than 150 million records worldwide.