Tenerife will host a unique concert next summer: Ed Sheeran has chosen the Island as a stopover for his Subtract tour. This was announced by the artist’s own production company when sharing next year’s dates on their social media profiles.
Although the poster only indicates the month of this event, El Día, from the Prensa Ibérica group, has learned that it will take place in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, presumably in the stadium Heliodoro Rodríguez López depending on the final calendar of CD Tenerife.
At the moment, tickets are not on sale although according to the event website They will be available starting November 6.
On this tour, the British singer will tour the entire planet over the next year with a tour that promises to be historic. Among the scheduled appointments, his participation stands out Rock in Rio Lisbon 2024 the same month in which it will arrive in Tenerife.
The inclusion of the Island in the tour of concerts of the British singer aspires to be one of the great dates in Tenerife for next summer. At least that is the wish of the political leaders of Tenerife and especially of the capital
In fact, the councilor for Public Services of Santa Cruz, Carlos Tarife, announced a few weeks ago that the capital will recover the splendor of yesteryear as the epicenter of music.
Trajectory
The artist The singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran was born as Edward Christopher Sheeran in the English city of Hebden Bridge, in 1991. At the age of four, he began singing in the church choir and at eleven he started playing the guitar. His first influences were Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan, whose albums he listened to at home thanks to his parents. At the age of fourteen he began to compose his own songs.
In 2005 the musician recorded his first EP, titled “The Orange Room”. In early 2010, he released a video clip titled “You Need Me, I Don’t Need You” and then he publishes a new EP, under the title “Loose Change” and which includes one of his first hits, “The A Team“.
That same year Ed Sheeran He travels to Los Angeles with the intention of breaking the monotony and opening himself up to new musical experiences. During a brief concert in Inglewood, the singer manages to attract the attention of actor Jamie Foxx.
Back to the UK, Ed Sheeran’s fame skyrockets, mainly thanks to social networks. The video “You Need Me, I Don’t Need You” goes viral and is heard repeatedly on television.
In 2011 he published a new EP, again independently and without the support of any record company. The title of this new work is “No. 5 Collaborations Project“, which features the collaboration of voices such as Wiley, Jme, Devlin, Sway and Ghetts and for which even receives a call from himself Elton John to show your support.
In September 2011, the Ed Sheeran’s first albumtitled “+“, which can be read as plus. The album debuts at number one on the British charts and It became the third best-selling album of 2012 in the United Kingdom
On February 10, 2013, the artist participated in a duet with Elton John at the Grammy Awards, performing the song “The A Team and that same year publishes the song “I See Fire”included in the soundtrack of the film “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.”
Despite receiving several Grammy Award nominations, it was in 2016 when he won the statuettes reserved for Best Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Solo Performance for the song “Thinking Out Loud.