EARLY
LIFE//
Ed Sheeran was born as Edward Christopher Sheeran on 17 February 1991. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and moved with his family to Framlingham in Suffolk when he was a child. His older brother Matthew works as a composer. Both of their parents are London-born, while his paternal grandparents were Irish, where his father grew up strongly influenced by a large Catholic family. His father is an art curator and lecturer, while her mother is a culture publicist turned jewellery designer, and they both ran Sheeran Lock, an independent art consultancy, from 1990 to 2010.
Ed's early childhood memories include listening to the records of Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton. During his childhood, his father took him to a number of live concerts that would later inspire his musical creations. He sang in a local church choir from the age of four, learned to play the guitar at a very young age during his time at Rishworth School, and began writing songs while at Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham. Dylan, Nizlopi, and Eminem are his biggest musical influences. He is a patron of the Youth Music Theatre UK and of Access to Music, where he studied Artist Development course. Later on he was accepted at the National Youth Theatre in London. He attended the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, Surrey, as an undergraduate from the age of 18 in autumn 2009.