Ed Sheeran has been at the top of the British singles chart for four consecutive weeks, but it might not have been like that if he had given up. The English singer revealed that, when he became a father, he seriously thought about abandoning his musical career.
Little Lyra, born of her marriage to Cherry Seaborn, was born in September 2020 and filled a void inside Ed Sheeran. He had been asking questions since the end of the 2019 tour.
“I was 28 and thinking ‘I don’t know what to do now.’ I chased and chased and chased and chased, I got to this thing and then, in my year off, I was trying to figure out who I was” Ed told in a recent SiriusXM Hits 1 radio interview.
On vacation, without playing, he realized that music represented 100% of who he was. But then came Lyra’s pregnancy and birth.
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“Okay, that’s it. I will be a father. I won’t play anymore” he thought at the time.
He wanted to dedicate himself completely to his daughter, but he wasn’t happy with the decision.
“Then all of a sudden I thought, ‘It’s more important for my daughter to grow up knowing that her parents have a work ethic, and that her parents love to work hard, and they love to raise and enjoy their jobs. It’s better to see that than to look at your technically unemployed father” he narrated.
So he came back. Lyra doesn’t have an unemployed father.
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