British 20-year-old songsmith with smashing songs
British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran performed at the Crossing Border festival just recently, in Antwerp. He made furore in past years with 5 self-released EPs, impressive output seeing as Sheeran is only 20 springs young. In that time he skimmed all sorts of stages, all by himself, and sold his own CDs to fans straight from his rucksack. On them you could find simple songs midway between pop, folk and, yes, hip-hop too. His album ‘+’ will be in stores here in February 2012. Of course, you've already been whistling along to his ‘The A-team’ for a while now and you're sure to do the same with his new single ‘You Need Me, I Don't Need You’.