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Ed Sheeran has given some advice about how to be an authentic singer of song

  • October 18, 2012
  • Brad O'Mance

Right everyone, stop what you're doing because Ed Sheeran has got some advice about how to break into 'the biz'.

"If you want to be a producer, then shadow a producer, start making him tea," Sheero muses. "If you want to be a singer then make sure you go to a lot of shows of people you really, really admire, study how they do it."

Thought-provoking words. But the notorious ruiner of Taylor Swift songs didn't stop there:

"The main thing people get messed up is they think, 'Right I need a degree, I'm going to go off and study music at uni­ver­sity'," Ed remembered of a music lesson of his that involved the erection of a mic stand. "You can learn to do that on your own", he noted.

It's a bit like the old saying isn't it: you can lead a man to a mic stand, but you can't stop him from spewing utter shit.

 

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