Anne-Marie reveals how touring with Ed Sheeran helped her as an artist
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Anne-Marie / Ed Sheeran
Author: Anna Sky MagliolaPublished 5th Jul 2018 Last updated 5th Jul 2018
Rising pop star Anne-Marie has thanked her friend and fellow singer, Ed Sheeran, for helping her to grow in confidence and increasing her ticket sales ahead of her own tour later this year. The pair have toured across Europe over the past year and speaking in a recent interview with the Standard Anne-Marie said, “Without these kinds of experiences it would take a lot longer for me to get in the swing of things with performing.”
She went on to explain, “Performing is such a big part of being an artist and if you don’t have that practise and experience it’s going to take a lot longer. Especially when it comes to these stadiums, I never thought I would get used to it."
Later this year Anne-Marie will embark on her 'Speak Your Mind Tour' in support of her debut album, and she credits the success of the sales for her tour to Ed Sheeran.
Anne-Marie also joined Ed on tour last year across Europe and described the experience as "amazing".
Whilst on tour she celebrated her birthday, when asked if they got up to anything wild or stupid after their shows Anne-Marie admitted she was keen to "be good" and look after her voice. However, she did end up spending her birthday in Paris and Barcelona saying, "It was really amazing to celebrate my birthday on tour, every night was just incredible".
"It's finally coming. It's actually so scary now as well. I was really impatient about it coming out, and now it's finally on, I'm a bit scared."
She went on to say, "It's scary because it's taken about five years, it's been in the making for five years. People's expectation is scaring me, cos I hope that they like it, but you never know.
"I'm just hoping everyone likes it. I've tried to put as much as myself on it as possible. Loads of different vibes, different subjects, different things that I'm talking about - it's just scary."
However Anne-Marie had nothing to worry about as her album went to number 3 in the UK.
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Cheryl
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Anne-Marie is known for her hits such as 'Alarm', 'Ciao Adios', 'Friends' with Marshmello and most recently her number 3 single '2002'.
You can hear hits from both Anne-Marie and Ed Sheeran on KISS.
