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Ed Sheeran Biography


Date of Birth
17 February 1991
Birth Name
Edward Christopher Sheeran
5' 8"

Trade Mark

Fire red hair

Often has other actors for protagonists in his music videos.


Edward Christopher Sheeran was born in Halifax, west Yorkshire, England. Ed is a singer-songwriter and has been recording since 2005.

Named all four of his guitars - Felix, Cyril, Nigel, and Loyd.

Has a brother named Matthew.

Ed Sheeran fans call themselves Sheerios.

Ed's influence for the song "Drunk" was from when he was 19 and he was touring with Example. He had drunk a lot and woke up the next day at a stranger's house, not remembering a thing from the night before.

He is a big fan of 'Elton John' , whom he considers a big influence on his career and a big supporter. In 2014, Sheeran attended the wedding of 'Elton John' to his husband 'David Furnish ' .

Is a huge fan of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) , having mentioned the series in several of his concerts. His song "Afire Love" samples "Remembering Jenny" from the 'Christophe Beck' score, from the Season 2 episode "Passion".


[on not having become a paparazzi target] I always expected it to happen and then it never did. I think it's because I've never done anything interesting. Like I've never been caught taking cocaine or having sex with a stripper or, you know, things that end up ruining people in the press. I haven't done these things. I haven't dated a famous person. I'm not that scandalous.

Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.


Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public own it. It's their song. It might be their song that they wake up to, or their song they have a shower to, or their song that they drive home to or their song they cry to, scream to, have babies to, have weddings to - like, it isn't your song anymore.

I've always had really messy hair.


I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.


My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

I was on some TV shows with Lady Gaga the other week, and you could see the difference in reaction between her fans and my fans outside. She comes out, and she looks like a star, and the reaction is just tears, crying, people going, 'Oh my God, Oh my God.' My fans are like: 'Alright, Ed.'

I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.


Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?



I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.

I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.


The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.

If I can put on my album in a car or on my headphones and listen to the whole thing and love it, that's what I'm going to be happy putting out there.

The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.


I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.

I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.



I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists. I feel that musicians do it their own way, write their own songs and put on a great live shows.

Harry Potter is awesome.

Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.


I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.

My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.

I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.


I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.

You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigging. One year I did 311 shows. I did six in one night alone.

I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.'


I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.

I don't know if my songs fit in films.

The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.



I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.

In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.


"Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 22 May 2015, Iss. 1364, pg. 34-37, by: Hibberd, James, "3 Rounds of Meat With Ed Sheeran"


"New York Post" (USA), 11 August 2016, Vol. 215, Iss. 270, pg. 29, by: Richard Morgan, "Sheeran 'Gets It' from Gaye family"

"Los Angeles Times" (USA), 10 June 2016, Vol. 135, Iss. 190, pg. C3, by: Randy Lewis, "Suit targets Sheeran's 'Photograph' - Two men contend the pop star's hit stole from their song"

"Parade" (USA), 29 June 2014, pg. 6-10+12, by: David Browne, "Ed Sheeran Once Trashed A Hotel Room...Then He Put It All Back Together"

Magazine Cover Photo

"Parade" (USA), 29 June 2014

Other Works

(2015) Music video for Rudimental: "Lay It All On Me"