Today's Birthday 17/2
Today's Birthday, February 17: English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran (1991 - )
A １０年間 ago he was an unknown 19-year-old musician, but four hugely successful albums later Ed Sheeran has become one of the biggest artists of the １０年間.
He was the second most streamed artist on Spotify from 2010 to 2019, the 最高の，を越す-charting UK artist, had two Billboard number one （テニスなどの）シングルス and three number one albums, and 選ぶd up four Grammys along the way.
Sheeran was 指名するd for a fifth Grammy in 2020 for Best Pop 声の Album for No.6 共同s 事業／計画（する）, but 行方不明になるd out to singer Billie Eilish at the January 儀式.
Edward Christopher Sheeran was born at Hebden 橋（渡しをする）, West Yorkshire, and raised in the 郡 of Suffolk, which he still calls home.
His talent was evident at an 早期に age. Sheeran joined the church choir at the age of four, and 選ぶd up a guitar about the same time.
He 解放（する）d his first EP 老年の 14 and dropped out of school before his 17th birthday to 追求する a music career.
He played hundreds of gigs before catching the ear of actor Jamie Foxx at an open-mic night in Los Angeles in 2010. Foxx 申し込む／申し出d him use of a 記録，記録的な／記録するing studio, and Sheeran began to build up a fan base through YouTube and five more multi-genre EPs.
The last EP, No 5 共同s 事業／計画（する）, 頂点（に達する）d inside the UK 最高の，を越す 50, にもかかわらず having no 昇進／宣伝. 大西洋 記録，記録的な／記録するs （機の）カム knocking weeks later.
The A Team was 解放（する）d as the lead 選び出す／独身 on his first album + (pronounced "加える") in June 2011 and 伸び（る）d instant acclaim.
The British 打開 行為／法令／行動する of the 2012 has remained unstoppable since.
Sheeran's first studio album 攻撃する，衝突する No 1 in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.
His second album, x (prounounced "multiply") in 2014 sold 500,000 copies in Australia and topped charts in 14 countries, 含むing the US and Britain.
It also won Sheeran two Grammys - Song of the Year and Best Pop 単独の 業績／成果 for romantic ballad Thinking Out Loud.
Then the 星／主役にする surprised everyone by taking a year off at the 頂点（に達する） of his career.
But he 選ぶd up 正確に／まさに where he left off when he returned with / ("divide"). It topped charts around the world and won him another two Grammys.
In 2019 he 解放（する）d his 最新の album, the No.6 共同s 事業／計画（する）, which features a bevvy of famous artists 含むing Justin Bieber, Eminem, Khalid and Bruno 火星.
It also debuted at the 最高の，を越す of the charts in the UK, US and Australia, and 得点する／非難する／２０d him another Grammy 指名／任命.
Sheeran married high school sweetheart Cherry Seabourn in 2018.
