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Ed Sheeran: “The birth of my daughter is a miracle”

“My daughter is a miracle.” Ed Sheeran he is moved during an interview on American radio The breakfast club and speaks with an open heart about his daughter Lyra Antarctica, born in August 2020 when he and his wife Cherry Seaborn, with whom he has been married since 2018, were no longer hoping for it. “We have tried for a long time but this much desired child did not arrive», Revealed the 30-year-old singer of = (it is read Equals,) who in the new album tells his experience as a father and his new maturity. “We made visits after visits to understand what was wrong, we also thought about in vitro fertilization, many of my friends have done it. Now I know that if there are no real physical problems, it is largely a mental issue. But nothing is sure, so when it happens it’s a miracle ».

The miracle happened in Antarctica (hence the second name of the child), where the couple at the end of 2019 gave themselves a holiday – also from the stress and anxiety of having a child – which ultimately bore fruit: the birth, nine months later, Lyra’s, announced to the city and the world with an Instagram post on September 1, 2020.

“Her arrival was a blessing, we couldn’t not give her the name of the place where she was conceived,” said Sheeran, while taking into account the future protests of the person concerned: “I’m sure she won’t like this name when it will be great. But for the moment he still doesn’t object. ” Also because he has not yet learned to speak: «He calls me Dada. Or rather: he points to me and says “Dada”, it’s a pity that shortly before he also pointed to and called Dada an orange “, joked Ed, like a good proud dad, to the The Tonight Show by Jimmy Fallon, showing how much this event has transformed the life not only of man but also of the artist.

“I’m an adult, I’m a dad now, everything has changed”, canta Sheeran in Tides, the song, dedicated to his daughter, which opens the album released on October 29 (and immediately flew to the top of the charts). «This record is the end of a question and the beginning of an answer. I feel like my twenties have been spent in the midst of many questions, “why am I doing this, where am I going?”. The transition to thirty years, becoming a father and marrying me, brought many answers and this is what disco talks about. Find out who I am today », he said introducing Equals.

But if the fruit of this new life is this album, it seems to be somehow a consequence of it too Merry Christmas, the Christmas duet between Sheeran and Elton John announced a few days ago. “I like Christmas, but I’ve always been against Christmas songs,” Sheeran explained, “But when my daughter was born, Elton used to call me every day to ask about my new life, then I lost a very dear friend and Elton. he was very close to me. Our friendship grew and his enthusiasm infected me. Therefore, since if you have to do something you might as well do it well, I wanted a real Christmas song, complete with trills and bells. And in the end we wrote three! “

The song will be released, the authors ensure, in time for the holidays. Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran is arriving in Italy, in Milan, where on November 25 he will be super guest of the fifth Live Show of X Factor 2021.

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