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Ed Sheeranfound the “Perfect” place for an impromptu performance before the weekend kicked off!
On Friday, the singer-songwriter, 32, hopped atop a car in New York City outside his American Express pop-up in Soho for a very special acoustic number.
“Can I sing you one song before I go,” Sheeran asked the crowd before breaking out into his recent single, “Boat.”
Rocking a pair of black pants, blue-and-orange Nikes and a black coat, the musician pulled out hisSubtract-branded guitar to sing the song off his new album to several adoring fans who waited outside.
Throughout the performance, which came aday afterhe was found not liable in a lawsuit filed against him foralleged copyright infringement, Sheeran paced around the roof of the car and gave it his all.
Even those who weren’t necessarily waiting outside the event caught a glimpse of Sheeran, as onlookers could be seen in the background of videos sitting on their balconies and enjoying the track.
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As Sheeran explained, the jury’s decision “will help to protect the creative process of songwriters here in the United States and around the world.” And he ultimately isn’t “going to have to retire from my day job after all,” aftervowing to do soif he were to be found liable in the suit.
After thanking the jury, his legal team and the track’s co-writer, Sheeran encouraged the music community to “come together to bring back common sense.”
“These claims need to be stopped so that the creative process can carry on, and we can all just go back to making music,” he concluded. “At the same time, we absolutely need trusted individuals, real experts who help support the process of protecting copyright. Thank you.”
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The musician is now fresh off the release of his new LPSubtract, an album that includes a touching song about his older daughter,Lyra Antarctica, 2½.
Sheeran played the song “Dusty"for a crowd at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatrebefore the release, as he explained that “being a parent is obviously wild and wonderful. Being a parent in times of real sadness … has a massive juxtaposition to it.”
He explained that after late nights visiting a mural dedicated to his late friend,Jamal, he would “go to bed and cry myself to sleep and wake up at 6 with this ball of energy — this beautiful girl that’s jumping on me and being like, ‘Let’s listen to music and eat porridge!'”
“Me and my daughter have this routine in the morning where we pick a vinyl and we put on a vinyl, and we eat breakfast while listening to the vinyl, and it was the thing I would look forward to,” Sheeran added. “You know, you’d have a night of real darkness and sadness, then you wake up to just [a] happy little girl.”
He also shared that their taste in music choices ranges from Black Sabbath to Norah Jones.
source: people.com
