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Musician Ed Sheeran won an Emmy for Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso for Outstanding Music and Lyrics.
It was the first Emmy the famous recording artist has won, according to Deadline.
Ed Sheeran wins Emmy for Outstanding Music and Lyrics
On Saturday night, he was not at the Creative Emmy Awards to accept the award he shared with his co-writing team, Max Martin and Foy Vance, for A Beautiful Game. The song was featured in So Long, Farewell, the finale for Ted Lasso.
Though Sheeran wasn't present at the show, he had some sentiment about winning. Sheeran wrote a lengthy Instagram post about the surprising win.
“We won an Emmy last night. I was not expecting to win at all, it was a real real surprise waking up to the news, I wish I had been there but I'm just about to kick off the Asia tour so had to be elsewhere sadly,” he starts with.
The post contains a video of A Beautiful Game.
He then goes into what inspired the song and more.
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“We were all fans of the show and got asked to do a song for the finale, so 2 years ago this month we got in together and wrote a song about love and football, and how it is always about the journey rather than the destination. I recorded a crowd at one of my stadium shows for it singing the final chant to keep it in the footie wibes,” he continued. “It was up against some fantastic artists and songs in its Emmy category for Best Original Music and Lyrics, hence not thinking we had a chance in hell of winning, but thank you so much for whoever voted for it, and to Max, Foy and all the Lasso crew. I really am honoured.”
Congrats to Ed Sheeran and the team for their Emmy.
