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I got bizarre 6am wake-up call at hotel from Irish music icon to have a chat about how Spotify works, Ed Sheeran reveals
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
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Ed Sheeran sees his Irish heritage as his 'culture'
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The Galway Girl singer said he was immersed in Irish music from a young age
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Ed with his parents
Ed, 34, explained: 'My dad is Irish. Well, his dad's from
'I wear an England
'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
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'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
'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
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'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.'
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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
The Shape of You hitmaker was staying at the plush Culloden Hotel near Holywood, Co
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He revealed: 'I met Van Morrison weirdly, actually. I was doing a gig in
'She loves golf and
'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
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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
'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."
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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
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Van Morrison had an early morning catch-up with Ed Sheeran
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