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Hystorical Life of Ed Sheeran.

Ed 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.

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. 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, had a song appear in the second
installment of The Hobbit trilogy and won Grammys for hits like "Thinking Out Loud"
(2014) and "Shape of You" (2017).

When he was a kid, he had a surgery that went wrong and left him with a lazy
eye and speech problems. Whenever he tried speaking up in class, his mouth would
freeze and no word would come out. Other kids were mocking him about this. Soon, he
stopped participating and raising his hand at all.

His red hair wasn’t helping him with his image in school, of course. However,
he realized early on that while ginger men aren’t attractive, they do need to count on
taking action if they want to make something happen. In addition, he shares it’s what
saved him as a musician.

Speech therapy wasn’t going well and one of his biggest fears was that he’ll be
like that for the rest of his life. But things changed when one day his dad brought him
Eminem’s record. Ed Sheeran was amazed by how fast the singer was rapping. This
inspired him and he learned every word by the time he was 10.

Ed knew music was his calling and he had to do something about it. So in
addition to playing the guitar and writing songs, he started performing in different
venues. Soon he had 12 shows in a week. At the age of 14, Ed Sheeran took his guitar,
packed some clothes, and headed to London to officially start his music career and see
where it can take him.

Being on the road was far from easy. He shares that when he couldn’t find a
couch for the night, he had to sleep in parks or in the subway. He had some nights when
he didn’t have any money for food and was often on the situation of giving up. But he
didn’t.

The big leap was in 2010, and while it wouldn’t be possible without the hard
work and everything Ed Sheeran had done so far, social media made the success of the
boy happen faster. That helped him grow his online presence more and more, and
people across the world started tuning in to his YouTube videos. Soon the media started
paying attention to the ginger boy with the guitar and the amazing voice, and some big
names and newspapers started mentioning him. That allowed Ed Sheeran to start
dreaming bigger.

After hitting #2 on iTunes with a new release, Ed was invited to work with
Atlantic Records. With their help, he created his label debut studio album “+”. It
immediately sold 102,000 copies and later that year became the second best-selling
debut album in the UK. A year after the release of “+”, it had already sold more than a
million copies. His next album, “x”, including some of his biggest hits, came out in
2014, and went straight to #1 in the US and UK. Thanks to one of them, in 2016 he won
the Grammy Award for Best Song of The Year.

Ed Sheeran’s life story is one of the modern inspiring tales that can bring back
the hope in the starving artist and the unpopular kid. He likes to remember the fact that
one of the coolest kids from his school later ended up being his plumber. That’s why he
believes in being yourself rather than following the crowd or hiding your differences.

References :

https://www.biography.com/musician/ed-sheeran

https://www.goalcast.com/2018/01/09/ed-sheeran-life-story-2/