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When you’re a kid, your vision of the world is totally different. That’s why Maverick wanted to write a tune.
When you’re a kid, your vision of things is “perfect” and when you go throught bad times, you have some experiences and you don’t undestand a lot of things.
For example, you’re not really able to understand what death is. It might take years to fully understand those things. Plus, we’re always learning.
Maverick says if he got the opportunity to go back these years, he would do it because when you’re a kid:
“You want fiction, but you need reality.”
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He’s flossing so much he should be filmed.
He refers to the Kill Bill film series by Quentin Tarantino to put his excellence into perspective.
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Ed Sheeran is a singer/songwriter who was born in Halifax, England but was raised in Suffolk, England. He’s known for his energetic live shows, which involve him using a loop pedal and sometimes throwing some raps in for good measure.
Ed’s success story began with him playing music in older people’s homes. He first was picked up by a record producer when busking in the USA. He performed nearly a thousand gigs and street performances before getting the recognition he deserved. Unsigned projects such as Loose Change and Songs I Wrote with Amy relied on the production of long-term collaborator Jake Gosling and signaled the start of their hugely successful musical relationship. Soon he’d made countless industry friends.
Teaming up with some of the biggest names in UK grime – Wiley, Ghetts, Jme and more – he released the No. 5 Collaborations Project in January 2011, and it reached number 46 on the UK Singles Chart. One of the songs, “Little Lady” (feat. Mikill Pane), was a fan favourite, so Ed made a more radio-friendly solo version entitled “The A Team” and the rest is history. The song now has over a million sales in the UK and two million in the US.
Picked up by Asylum/Atlantic Records, Sheeran released another single entitled “You Need Me, I Don’t Need You.” He released his debut album + in September 2011, to great critical acclaim. It topped the UK Albums Chart and has sold nearly two million copies in the UK alone.
Many successful singles, features, and an EP with Yelawolf later, Ed scored his first UK #1 with the Pharrell Williams-produced “Sing”. Then came his 7x Platinum sophomore album x, which features a slew of hugely successful singles including “Don’t”, “Thinking Out Loud” and “Bloodstream”.
After an entire year of social media silence, Sheeran announced his comeback on New Year’s Day 2017. His third album, ÷, was released in March and included the hit singles “Castle on the Hill” and “Shape of You”.
Ed Sheeran was the most streamed artist on Spotify in 2017 with 47 million monthly listeners. His album, ÷, was the most streamed album in the world with 3,1 billion streams and the song “Shape of You” is the most streamed song ever with more than 1,4 billion streams.
Sheeran largely spent 2018 and the first half of 2019 on tour, but he also found time to work on his next album. It was released in July of 2019 and was titled No.6 Collaborations Project.
He announced another hiatus in December 2019, coming back in September 2020 with an announcement that he and Cherry are having their first child named Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran. He then released Afterglow in December 2020, saying that it isn’t the first single of his new album, it’s just a song he loves.
In June 2021, he released a new single named “Bad Habits” which is the lead single for his 5th album, = (Equals). In August 2021, he announced that his next album will be called = (Equals). In August 2021, he announced that his next album and will be released on 29th October 2021, with a promotional single called “Visiting Hours” for his close friend that died 6 months prior. Another single called “Shivers” is released the following month. Along with the album’s worldwide release, another single, “Overpass Graffiti” is released with its official video. In December, he released a Christmas special collaboration song with Elton John called “Merry Christmas” which is only included in the Christmas edition of Equals..
In May 2022, he released the repackaged edition of = (Equals) with includes 10 additional songs that weren’t in the standard edition, including Penguins and One Life from the 2019 film Yesterday, I Will Remember You and Welcome To The World.
In March 1st 2023, he announced that his 6th studio album will be called “- (Subtract)”, which will be released on May 5th 2023. In March 24th 2023, he released the lead single of Subtract named “Eyes Closed”. In April 21st 2023, he released another single called “Boat”. In May 5th 2023, Subtract was released as a visual album featuring 14 music videos of each track.
Edward Christopher Sheeran was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England on 17 February 1991. His early childhood home was on Birchcliffe Road in nearby Hebden Bridge. His father was a curator at Cartwright Hall in Bradford, and his mother worked at Manchester City Art Gallery. In December 1995, he moved with his family from Hebden Bridge to Framlingham in Suffolk, where he attended the independent Brandeston Hall preparatory school (now Framlingham College Prep School), then Thomas Mills High School, also in Framlingham. He has an older brother named Matthew, who works as a composer. Sheeran’s parents, John and Imogen, are from London. His paternal grandparents are Irish, and Sheeran has stated that his father is from a “very large” Catholic family. John is an art curator and lecturer, and Imogen is a culture publicist turned jewellery designer. His parents ran Sheeran Lock, an independent art consultancy, from 1990 to 2010.
Sheeran sang at a local church choir at the age of four, learned how to play the guitar at age eleven, and began writing songs while at Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham. He also played the cello when he was younger. A 2004 school report described him as a “natural performer”, and his classmates also voted him “most likely to be famous”. He was accepted at the National Youth Theatre in London as a teenager. He successfully auditioned for Youth Music Theatre UK in 2007 and joined their production of Frankenstein – A New Musical in Plymouth. He is a patron of Youth Music Theatre UK (now renamed British Youth Music Theatre) and of Access to Music, where he studied Artist Development. Sheeran is a second cousin of Northern Irish broadcaster Gordon Burns, who hosted the British game show The Krypton Factor.
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so good, just add bit more