Search icon

Music

22nd Jan 2018

Ed Sheeran says he will quit music to raise family with fiancée

Oli Dugmore

Record-breaking British singer Ed Sheeran has announced his plans to quit music.

The Shape Of You artist says his ambition will “go to zero” as soon as he has children with his new fiancée Cherry Seaborn.

Sheeran announced his engagement this weekend.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeLG5CBlLYw

The pair have known each other since school and now Sheeran will quit music much sooner than most would like.

He has announced that once he has children, he’ll be stepping away from the music industry.

“My ambition is going to go to zero as soon as I have kids,” he said. “I am going to be like, ‘I do not really care anymore as I have another life to take care of’.”

“It is totally understandable because you have children and your ambition shifts to be like, ‘I want to be a good father,'” Sheeran told the Daily Star.

When that will happen, exactly, is, well, unknown, although Sheeran has made frequent public remarks in recent years that he is ready to settle down and have kids.

He told Zane Lowe, for example, he wants “tour bus babies – little fat, chubby babies that just walk around”.

Sheeran first met Cherry Seaborn at Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham, when Ed fostered a long-standing crush before Cherry left for Duke University in North Carolina.

He proposed late last year.

LISTEN: You Must Be Jokin’ with Aideen McQueen – Faith healers, Coolock craic and Gigging as Gaeilge

Topics:

Ed Sheeran,Music