POP star Ed Sheeran has said that despite being born in England he sees his Irish heritage as his “culture”.
The Galway Girl singer said he was immersed in Irish music from a young age and embraces his family history.
Ed, 34, explained: “My dad is Irish. Well, his dad’s from Northern Ireland, his mum’s from southern Ireland, so I would say yes, he’s Irish.
“I wear an England football shirt when they play. But I would identify. . . like, I class my culture as Irish.
“I think that that’s what I grew up with. You know, my mum’s family is very, very small. It’s her and her parents.
“And my dad’s family, he’s got seven brothers and sisters, which is massive, so we’d spend all of our holidays in Ireland.
“My first musical experiences were in Ireland. I grew up with trad music in the house.
“So I do identify culturally as Irish, but I was obviously born and raised in Britain.
“I don’t overthink it, but I do feel like my culture is something that I’m really proud of and grew up with and want to express.
“And I feel like just because I was born in Britain doesn’t necessarily mean that I have to just be British. There’s loads of people that I know that are half this or a quarter that.
“I think that’s allowed. I don’t think there’s any rules to it. It should be how you feel and how you were raised and what you are leaning into it.”
Suffolk-born Ed added that it also feels special to him that he gets a lot of love from his fans in Ireland.
He said: “I’d say it’s basically my second home musically. I’d say Ireland is the place that I am most successful musically.”
Ed also told the new episode of The Louis Theroux podcast how he had a bizarre 6am wake-up call at his hotel from Van Morrison – who asked him to explain how Spotify works.
The Shape of You hitmaker was staying at the plush Culloden Hotel near Holywood, Co Down when Sir Van surprised him wanting to meet.
CALL SHOCK
He revealed: “I met Van Morrison weirdly, actually. I was doing a gig in Belfast and my grandmother had come down to the gig. We’d stayed up that night.
“She loves golf and Rory McIlroy had come down. She was in her 90s at that point, but just loved being around him. We stayed up super late talking to him.
“I’d say we went to bed at like 4am and then at about 6am, I got a call on my hotel phone from the hotel being like, ‘Mr Morrison’s in the lobby. He wants to have breakfast with you.’
“And I was half asleep and half drunk, so I just hung up, and I was like, ‘I have no idea who Mr Morrison is. Like, why are you ringing me at 6 o’clock in the morning?’”
Ed said when he realised it was the famous Brown Eyed Girl crooner he pulled himself together to meet his idol Sir Van.
MEETING HIS IDOL
He continued: “It’s a posh hotel – they’re not going to say Van the Man. And then I get another call, and they said, ‘Sorry, Van Morrison is in.’
“And I suddenly sort of woke up, had a really quick shower, ran downstairs, and there he was waiting for me. And we had breakfast together, which was really surreal.
“I’m a huge, huge Van Morrison fan. One of my favourite albums is his album he did with the Chieftain’s, Irish Heartbeat.
“And yeah, we spoke for ages about everything. One of the subjects was actually Spotify.
“Spotify was quite a new thing at that point and I had embraced Spotify quite early in my career, and I think he was like asking me to explain Spotify to him.”
“I wear an England football shirt when they play. But I would identify. . . like, I class my culture as Irish.”
Ed Sheeran
Louis asked Ed if Van’s reputation as a curmudgeon and being grumpy was his first impression on meeting the 79-year-old.
He replied: “I think anyone that I’ve met in the industry can be grumpy if you meet them in the wrong way and I think I met him as an artist, a fellow artist.
‘FANTASTIC’
“And we had a lovely conversation. I’ve met him since and really get on with him. He’s incredible.
“And I think his output of music… I think also because I was so schooled in his output of music, he liked that I didn’t just come in and go, ‘Astral Weeks and Moondance are great.’ Like, I’ve dug into his discography with him and I think he liked that.
“He’s fantastic. Do you know what I’ve found about people’s reputations in the industry is you just have to judge them on how you meet them.
“I think I was very nervous to meet him because of that. Same thing with Eminem. I didn’t know whether Eminem would be happy for me to be there or standoffish or whatever.”
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