Edward Christopher Sheeran MBE is an English singer-songwriter who was born on February 17, 1991, in Halifax, West Yorkshire and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk.
He began writing songs around the age of eleven. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project and signed with Asylum Records the same year.
Sheeran has sold over 150 million albums around the world and is among the top-selling artists in the world.
He owns 84.5 million RIAA-certified units in the US, and two albums from his catalog are on the top 10 top-selling albums in UK chart history.
In December 2019, the Official Charts Company named him artist of the decade, having the greatest success on the UK chart for singles and album charts in the 2010s.
Worldwide, Spotify named him the second-highest streamed artist of the last decade. Since the month of March, his tour was the most-successful tour ever, in August 2019.
An alumnus of the National Youth Theatre in London, Sheeran’s acting roles include appearing in the 2019 film Yesterday.
Why Did Ed Sheeran Call His Daughter Antarctica?
There are some dots that have been connected to come up with the reason why Ed Sheeran named his daughter Lyra Antarctica.
Speaking to The Independent, the singer said;
“Me and Cherry always wanted to go to Antarctica, it was always on our list,” he explained.
“It’s the one continent I haven’t gone to… So we went there, and it’s just an amazing place, it’s really special to us, and obviously like we got home and Cherry was pregnant. Yeah! It was just something we wanted to have in her name,” he added.
Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran is currently one year old, and will be two years in August 2022. She was born on August 2020.
Her birth was announced by her father on Instagram on September 1, 2020.
Meanwhile, on May 19, 2022, it was announced that the couple’s second child, a girl, was born.
Source: Kingaziz.com