Forget a band. All you need is good, popular music and a great voice and you'll have 50,000 fans singing along to nearly every word of your songs.
Ed Sheeran stood alone on a big stage in front of a huge crowd with just his guitars and a looper as he performed nearly 20 songs during his almost two hour set. His only bells and whistles were a half UFO looking light and video screen type thing which showed different images and camera angles of Sheeran throughout each song.
Sheeran quickly and masterfully recreated the sounds of a band with his device, and while there's really no real substitute for a live band, it was almost mezmerizing to see Sheeran's creativity using the looper so flawlessly that most fans probably wouldn't have even known he was using it if he hadn't let them know after the first song.
"Tonight, everything you hear is going to be completely live. It comes from this guitar and this microphone and I use this thing on my feet called a looper."
Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actor. Sheeran was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk. He attended the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford as an undergraduate from the age of 18 in 2009. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project.
After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011. It topped the UK and Australian charts, reached number five in the US, and has since been certified seven-times platinum in the UK. The album contains the single "The A Team", which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John.
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