English singer-songwriter Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE, started writing songs at the age of eleven. He was raised in Framingham, Suffolk, and was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire. Early in 2011, Sheeran independently released No. 5 Collaborations Project, an extended play. The following year, he signed with Asylum Records.
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Sheeran began singing in a local church choir when he was four years old, learned to play the guitar when he was eleven, and began writing songs while attending Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham. When he was younger, he also played the cello. He was hailed as a “natural performer” in a 2004 school report, and his classmates voted him “most likely to be famous.” As a teenager, he was accepted into the National Youth Theatre in London.
Sheeran began studying music as an undergraduate at the Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) in Guildford, Surrey in the autumn of 2009 but left without permission the following year to support hip-hop musician Just Jack. He released another EP, You Need Me, in 2009, and also collaborated with Essex vocalist Leddra Chapman on many songs, including CeeLo Green’s “Fuck You.”
