Ed Sheeran, the formula of written success with six guitar strings
A voice and the six strings of a guitar were all Ed Sheeran needed to discover the formula of success, and what allowed him to stop being the "rare child" of school to become one of the most recognized artists on the international sceneAbout to turn 30 this Wednesday.
Although he was born in Halifax (northern England), Sheeran spent most of his childhood in Framlingham, a small town northeast of London in which he was inspired to 'Castle on the Hill', where he says that "his leg was broken"With six years, he smoked cigarettes with 15, got drunk with his friends and gave his first kiss on a Friday night.
It was at the institute when he started playing the guitar and, after a concert of Damien Rice that he attended with 12 years, he discovered that he wanted to devote himself to music, because, in addition to making him happy, he also helped him socialize and stop being the objectOf teasing for being redhead, wearing glasses or stuttering, something that surpassed Eminem.
Born worker
That fact also encouraged him to continue his musical and acting training in companies such as the 'British Youth Music Theater'."Extremely worker."
Stimson especially remembers a night in which Sheeran captured his attention when he appeared with his guitar and played some of his songs."I felt that I was listening to someone extraordinarily talented, he interpreted in a way he had never seen in anyone before," he says.
The "sum" of the effort
He was also present at that evening his partner and friend Matt Brinkler, who tells Efe how Sheeran asked him years later to be able to sleep on his sofa "A season" when he left to London to look for life."He worked hard for what he wanted to do, he played the guitar every day and made bowling seven days a week, and hundreds a year," he adds.
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The singer "put all his eggs in a single basket and focused his effort on being successful in the music industry, even if he did not have a place to call home," says journalist Andrew Bullock, who met him with "The A Team", like so many to those who captivated with his "compositional skills and the humility he gave off."
The unique nuances of the young Sheeran convinced Elton John himself, who made him his "protected" and taught him the infallible equation to "overcome the paths of the music industry" in which he debuted in 2011 with '+' (Plus),with jewels like 'Lego House' or 'Drunk'.
"Multiply" success
He left behind the decline of the London pubs who saw him grow and began composing for stars like 'One Direction, which he gave the beautiful' Little Things';Or Taylor Swift, with whom he wrote and interpreted together 'Everything has changed' to later accompany her as the opener of her on her 'Red' tour throughout the United States.
That allowed him to make himself known to a broader audience at the same time and, during the trip, his head did not stop machining songs.A total of 120 that cleared the 'X' (multiply) of his second album, which included the nuptial 'Thinking out loud'- with which he won in 2016 the Grammy for the best song of the year-, in addition to a song to the sea ofTenerife
"Divide" the pressure
However, the success and long tours aggravated the mental health and anxiety of Sheeran, who decided to take time to reconnect with himself;Being able to "see the world with his eyes and not through a screen", travel and create ties with the love of his childhood and now, his wife, Cherry Seaborn.
Más informaciónEd Sheeran se toma un respiro y volverá cuando "haya vivido un poco más"She dedicated 'Perfect', the first theme he composed of his third album '÷' (dividing), which he launched in 2017 after a year missing from the map and turned into a happier man, as he recounts in 'Happier', togetherto other hits such as 'Shape of You' or the energetic 'Barcelona', in which it includes some words in Spanish.
'÷' was proclaimed as the best album of the year with 15 million copies sold.It happened 'Nº 6', a collaborations album with artists such as Justin Bieber or Camila Cabello, and then entered a musical lethargy, only interrupted by surprise last Christmas with the launch of 'afterglow'.
At this time he changed the guitar for the brush, exploded his most "polishian" artistic facet in paintings that now auction for charities;And in September 2020 he welcomed his first daughter, Lyra Antotica.
Now that it reaches 30, those who, like Brinkler, knew him as a young man, recognize that "his music has changed with him, but that it is the same Ed that played the guitar sitting on the floor of the hall" and there lies the formula of your success.
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