The new face of English music: Ed Sheeran

There’s no need to introduce him, he’s the new male voice of English musical panorama, so fascinating for young fans and so appreciated award winning artist by the international record industry executives: Ed Sheeran is undoubtedly one among the greatest young singer-songwriters and musicians of the latest 10 years. If you don’t remember The A Team or Lego House, the two singles of his debut album +, you’re at least familiar with the ballad refrain of Thinking Out Loud. Touching scenes reminding us of films like Dirty Dancing involve our artist while dancing with an amazing dancer on the notes of his romantic track: the video on YouTube has currently got about 554 millions views and about 3 millions likes.

 

 Singing in a local church choir from the age of four and learning guitar at a very young age, he began writing songs during his time at High School in Suffolk, where he moved as a child with his family from West Yorkshire. Deeply inspired and influenced by The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Eminem, he moved to London in 2008 and began playing his two first independent EPs (The Orange Room EP and You Need Me) in very small venues. Throughout 2010, Sheeran began to be seen by more people over the internet through YouTube and his fan-base grew, with him also getting credit from The Independent newspaper, England football captain Rio Ferdinand and Elton John. 2011 is his debut year: the single The A Team was released as a digital download in the UK becoming Sheeran’s lead single for his first studio album entitled +. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number three, selling over 58,000 copies in the first week and becoming a top ten hit in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway and the Netherlands.

 

He gained greater and greater success with his second studio album X (read “multiply”), released in 2014, containing the hit Thinking Out Loud, whose music video achieved almost three million views within 24 hours from its release. Its sweet melody, accompanied by his delicate voice and appearance (the red of his hair is so typically British!), makes Ed Sheeran the new image of English pop/folk music.