Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Passage: A mụrụ Sheeran na Halifax, West Yorkshire na 17 February 1991. Mgbe ọ bụ nwata, ya na ezinụlọ ya si Hebden Bridge kwaga Framlingham na Suffolk. O nwere nwanne nwoke tọrọ ya aha ya bụ Matthew bụ onye na-ede egwú. Nne na nna Sheeran, John na Imogen, si London. Nne na nna nna ya bụ ndị Irish, Sheeran ekwuola na nna ya sitere na ezinụlọ Katọlik "nnukwu". John bụ onye nlekọta ihe osise na onye nkuzi, Imogen bụkwa onye mgbasa ozi ọdịbendị ghọrọ onye mmebe ọla. Nne na nna ya na-agba Sheeran Lock, ụlọ ọrụ na-ahụ maka nka n'onwe ya, site na 1990 ruo 2010. Sheeran bụrụ abụ na ukwe ụka obodo site na mgbe ọ dị afọ anọ, mụta ịkpọ ụbọ akwara n'oge ọ nọ na Rishworth School, wee malite ide abụ mgbe ọ nọ na Thomas Mills High School na Framlingham. A nabatara ya na National Youth Theatre na London mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na ụma. Ọ gara nke ọma na Youth Music Theatre UK na 2007 wee sonye na mmepụta ha nke Frankenstein na Plymouth. Ọ bụ onye nkwado nke Youth Music Theatre UK (nke a na-akpọzi British Youth Music Theatre) na nke Access to Music, ebe ọ gụrụ Ọganihu Artist. Sheeran bụ nwa nwanne nke abụọ nke onye mgbasa ozi Northern Irish bụ Gordon Burns, onye kwadoro egwuregwu egwuregwu Britain The Krypton Factor.  Ajụjụ: Afọ ole ka a mụrụ Sheeran?
Afọ 1991