Ed Sheeran is a British singer, songwriter, and producer. After self-releasing nine EPs during the late 2000s and early 2010s — including No.5 Collaborations Project, which featured UK rap and grime stars such as Ghetts, Wiley, and Wretch 32 — he released his breakthrough debut album + in 2011. That was followed by x in 2014, 2017’s ÷, winner of the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, No.6 Collaborations Project (2019), = (2021), - (2023), and Autumn Variations (2023).

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He is known for such hit songs as The A Team, Thinking Out Loud, which won Grammys for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance, Shape of You (awarded the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance), Perfect, and I Don’t Care with Justin Bieber.

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Sheeran has appeared in the concert special Apple Music Live: Ed Sheeran, capturing his 2023 performance in London, and played as himself in the films Bridget Jones’s Baby and Yesterday, as well as the documentary Songwriter and Apple Original series Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All. He also played a Lannister soldier in one episode of Game of Thrones.