Ed Sheeran “I want to spend more time with my children”

Ed Sheeran has one priority: the family. “I think that life consists in transmitting values ​​to the generation that will follow me and I want to dedicate as much time as possible to my children”. And so, after the recent release of = (editor’s note. We read Equals) fourth album in the series titled with mathematical symbols and perhaps his most complete work, the artist announces that after the 2022 tours he could take a break and dedicate himself to his wife Cherry Seaborn and 16-month-old daughter Lyra Antarctica (which is called that because after years of trying, the British singer and his wife Cherry had thought of in vitro fertilization. Then a trip to Antarctica and the birth, nine months later). It will therefore be Mathematics the next and last stadium tour, as he hinted in the podcast Teach Me a Lesson? The response was cryptic at the moment and it is not known whether the musician will really say goodbye to music as Coldplay recently announced. Sheeran has in fact declared how much she wishes to have a close relationship with her children and how much she does not want to make them suffer for professional choices that override personal ones. Of the value of a great and protective paternal love, on the other hand, he had already sung in Sandman: “And even if it’s raining outside, you’ll be safe. Thunder and lightning won’t hurt you. ‘

«It is a question of finding a balance» the artist specified and «I would like to be away only for six weeks in the summer or six in the winter». The remaining time, as he suggests, would be destined for that quality time, that quality time that perhaps for several years has relegated to too small a number of days. And indeed, considering that the artist’s last tour, Divide, included around 260 shows that took him around between 2017 and 2019 (and with which he set the world record of collections: more than 776 million dollars), his need to devote more time to his wife Seaborn, who he has been with since 2015 (to marry her in 2019) and to his daughter Lyra, born last August, is not so utopian. Indeed, perhaps it is the wisest choice to make or to put it with him, realistically Perfect. “I would not want my children to reach 20 without being able to have a happy relationship with them because I preferred the job to them. I honestly think that at the end of the 2022 tour I won’t be anywhere other than where my family is. “

Ed Sheeran, on the other hand, is not new to these moments of reflection. Some time ago, in fact, during an interview with SiriusXM Hits 1, had speculated that he wanted to be a full-time dad and added how during a performance in Ipswich in 2019 he thought, “I’m 28 and not what to do now. I have pursued all this for a long time and in the last year I have tried to understand who I was ». And how can we forget that post on Instagram dated 24 December 2019 in which he wrote: “Hi everyone. I’m taking another break. Everything about the Divide album and the tour changed my life in many ways, but now it’s all over and it’s time to go out and see a little bit of the world. I have never stopped since 2017 and now I take some time to travel, write and read. I will also stay away from all social media until it is time to return? ” A pause ensued, then Lyra’s birth and a new impetus to music. What will happen tomorrow? Truly the artist will keep the ideal promise he sings about Overpass Graffiti of “will we never fade like graffiti on the overpass?”. It’s hard to predict for sure now, but fans are hoping that a balance between his two loves – one for music and tours and one for family – could be Ed’s definitive answer. artist, aware of the environmental repercussions that his work leaves behind, he is striving for love the environment. As told to BBC Radio London he bought land to plant trees and “bring back” his country of origin. “I’m trying to buy as much land as possible and plant as many trees as possible. I’m trying to rearrange the UK as much as possible. I love my county, I love wildlife, I love the environment. ”