Ed Sheeran touched down in New York City on Wednesday as he ‘set the record straight’ on his plans to move to US.
The singer, 34, is no stranger to travelling the world for his work, but recently revealed he would be ‘settling’ in the States with his family while on tour.
Making his way to the Paramount and CBS offices, Ed dressed casually in a black hoodie and joggers which he teamed with a pair of colourful trainers.
Sharing an update to Instagram, he clarified his previous comments after he said ‘I might be the only person moving to America.’
In the post the musician wrote: ‘Way easier to clear up stuff on here so here’s me setting record straight, coz there’s deffo a narrative press are trying to push that people wanna move out of UK for some reason.
‘I’m not moving, I’m going on tour with my family and relocating to the continent I’m touring on, don’t wanna commute from London to San Diego obvz.’
Ed Sheeran touched down in New York City on Wednesday as he ‘set the record straight’ on his plans to move to US
The singer, 34, is no stranger to travelling the world for his work, but recently revealed he would be ‘settling’ in the States with his family while on tour
Ed added: ‘Also this isn’t a tax thing, it’s USA not UAE. Il always pay tax in uk coz that’s where I live. Play out Friday go listen to it x.’
The singer, who has an impressive property portfolio worth a staggering £70million, recently snapped up a sprawling £9million home in New York.
Yet he spends the majority of his time at his Sheeranville estate in Suffolk with wife Cherry Seaborn and their daughters, Lyra, five, and Jupiter, three.
Speaking on the 2 Johnnies podcast, he recently claimed he would be relocating to America for the foreseeable future.
Ed shared: ‘I’m just about to move to America. I feel like I might be the only person moving to America.
‘I’m going on tour there for a while and I have a family so I can’t dip in and out. We’re going and settling there.’
Ed did not specify where in the States he would be moving to.
Yet he previously said that a move to the States could be on the cards because he wanted to transition into country music.
Sharing an update to Instagram, he clarified his previous comments after he said ‘I might be the only person moving to America’
He wrote: ‘I’m not moving, I’m going on tour with my family and relocating to the continent I’m touring on, don’t wanna commute from London to San Diego obvz’
Ed said earlier this year: ‘When you transition to country, you can’t transition back.
‘Nashville is my favourite city in the States and it’s always been my end goal to move to Nashville and transition to country.’
While the singer-songwriter was brought up in Suffolk, his father John hails from Belfast, meaning he spent much of his childhood in Ireland.
Opening up on his heritage on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Ed explained: ‘I class my culture as Irish. I think that’s what I grew up with.
‘My dad’s family is … he’s got seven brothers and sisters. We’d spend all of our holidays in Ireland.
‘My first musical experiences were in Ireland, I grew up with trad music in the house. So I identify culturally as Irish, but I was obviously born and raised in Britain.’
The Galway Girl hitmaker went on to say that he was ‘really proud’ of his Irish cultural roots, and that he didn’t feel that he had to ‘just be British’, as it was down to ‘how you feel’.
He said: ‘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 Britain doesn’t necessarily mean that I have to just be [British], there’s loads of people I know that are half this or quarter this.
‘I don’t think there’s any rules to it. It should be how you feel and how you were raised and what you lean into.’
And when asked whether he gets ‘a lot of love’ in Ireland, the chart-topping star also praised the country as being ‘my second home’.
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.’
