How Ed Sheeran crooned his way to worldwide fandom

Ed Sheeran, the English singer, songwriter, and guitarist is loved by people across the world but ever wondered about his success story? Well, dealing with his fair share of struggles, Ed Sheeran’s story shows how the artist learned to embrace his uniqueness and overcame the challenges.

Ed Sheeran, the English singer, songwriter, and guitarist is loved by people across the world but ever wondered about his success story? Well, dealing with his fair share of struggles, Ed Sheeran’s story shows how the artist learned to embrace his uniqueness and overcame the challenges.

As a kid, he had undergone a surgery that went wrong and left him with a lazy eye and severe speech problems.  Therapy wasn’t going well but things improved when one day his dad brought him Eminem’s record. Ed was amazed by how fast the singer was rapping. Inspired, he learned every word by the time he was 10.

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In addition to playing and writing, he started performing at different venues. Soon he had 12 shows in a week. He didn’t take long to start recording the CDs and selling them. At the age of 14, Ed moved to London to officially start his music career. When he couldn’t find a couch for the night, he slept in parks or in the subway. The big leap was in 2010 when people across the world started tuning in to his YouTube videos. Soon the media started paying attention and he became a buzzword.

He moved to America and began sending out his music to anyone he could reach out to, but received no answers. Until one day, while on the show of a local radio host, he was brought to the stage. The host’s name was Jamie Foxx, who was so impressed that he let Ed Sheeran use his recording studio.

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Not just that, but he also let the boy crash on his couch for a few weeks. After hitting #2 on iTunes with a new release, Ed was invited to work with Atlantic Records to create his debut studio album which immediately sold 102,000 copies and became the second best-selling debut album in the UK.

By next year, it had already sold more than a million copies. His next album, “x”, including some of his biggest hits, came out in 2014, and went straight to #1 in the US and UK. Thanks to one of them, in 2016 he won the Grammy Award for Best Song of The Year. Ed Sheeran’s life story is one of the modern inspiring tales that can bring back the hope in the starving artist and the unpopular kid.

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