Edward Christopher Sheeran (hebden bridge, West Yorkshire, February 17 1991), best known for his stage name Ed Sheeran, is a singer and songwriter British. [2] to short age, began singing in the Church to which attended and also learned to play guitar. to Sixteen left high school, and moved to London to pursue a career. after post a PE independently in early 2011, caught the attention Elton John who put it in touch with the seal asylum records and signed an agreement recording. in September 2011 launched its debut album +, which had a commercial success and in the list musical disk UK. album consists of the simple "the a team" that was nominated to a Grammy by song of the year. 2012 Sheeran won awards artist revelation British and solo British male in the Brit awards. he acted as opening Act of Taylor Swift in his tour network tour for several months 2013 and 2014 opted to award best new artist of the Grammy awards. his second album ×, 2014, was even more successful sales your disk debut; stood in the position 1 Billboard 200 US and also in the list of albums British, and for February 2016 had sold ten million copies worldwide. the simple "thinking out loud» earned him the awards song of the year and best interpretation vocal pop solo in edition 58 the Grammy awards.