Ed Sheeran says wife was diagnosed with cancer while pregnant as he announces new album

Singer Ed Sheeran released a publication with personal reports when announcing his next album, substrate, this Wednesday, 1st. The artist spoke about the recent events that inspired him to compose the tracks for the new album and revealed that one of them involved his wife’s diagnosis, Cherry Seabornof a tumor during pregnancy.

Ed shared a snippet and photo from his diary to chronicle the writing process substrate. According to the singer, he has been working on an acoustic album for a decade, but the events of early 2022 have changed the way he views music and art.

Sheeran said that, in addition to Cherry’s diagnosis, his best friend’s sudden death, Jamal Edwardsand the lawsuits he faced on charges of plagiarism they were also the theme of the compositions. The artist revealed that he experienced all these events in the space of a month and that he had to deal with fear, depression and anxiety.

“I felt like I was drowning, with my head below the surface, looking up but not being able to get out for air,” she said. He called substrate of “a trap door to your soul” and said the album represents him as he is now and how he intends to express himself.

“For the first time, I’m not trying to make an album that people like. I’m just putting out something honest and true about who I am in my adult life,” she said. substrate It should be available on May 5th.

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Source: Terra