He was born on the 17th February 1991 in West Yorkshire. As a child, he began learning how to play the guitar and started writing his own songs whilst at high school. He recorded his first music in 2004 and spent for practising it before he went to London in 2008. The album was very successful and within six months he had sold over 1 million copies in the UK alone. Ed Sheeran won Brit awards for best British male solo artist and British breakthrough act of the year in 2012. He later supported Taylor swift on her tour which saw his popularity rise in the USA