Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I whanau a Sheeran i Halifax, West Yorkshire i te 17 o Hui-tanguru 1991. I a ia e tamariki ana, ka neke ia me tona whanau mai i Hebden Bridge ki Framlingham i Suffolk. He tuakana tana, ko Matthew te ingoa, he kaitito waiata. Ko ngā mātua o Sheeran, ko John rāua ko Imogen, nō Rānana. Ko ona tupuna tupuna he Irish, a kua kii a Sheeran ko tana papa no tetahi whanau Katorika "nui rawa". He kaitiaki toi, he kaiwhakaako hoki a Hoani, ā, he kaitohutohu ahurea a Imogen i huri hei kaihoahoa whakapaipai. I whakahaerehia e ona maatua a Sheeran Lock, he kaitohutohu toi motuhake, mai i te 1990 ki te 2010. I waiata a Sheeran i roto i te whare karakia o te whare karakia mai i te wha o ona tau, i ako ki te whakatangi i te kita i tana wa i te Kura o Rishworth, ka tiimata te tuhi waiata i a ia i te Kura Tuarua o Thomas Mills i Framlingham. I whakaaetia ia ki te National Youth Theatre i Ranana i a ia e taiohi ana. I angitu ia ki te whakaari mo te Whare Taonga Waiata Rangatahi o UK i te 2007 ka uru atu ki ta raatau mahinga o Frankenstein i Plymouth. He kaitautoko ia mo te Whare Tapere Waiata Rangatahi UK (kua whakaingoatia inaianei ko te Whare Tapere Waiata Rangatahi o Ingarangi) me te Whakauru ki te Waiata, i reira ia i ako ai i te Whakawhanake Toi. He whanaunga tuarua a Sheeran ki te kaikawe pouaka whakaata o te Raki o Ireland a Gordon Burns, nana nei i whakahaere te whakaaturanga petipeti o Ingarangi The Krypton Factor.  Pātai: He aha te tau i whānau ai a Sheeran?
Ko te tau 1991