he visited the city’s Alternative Provision Academy in January<\/a> as part of the launch of his foundation.<\/p>\n“I gave him a hug and said, ‘Nice to see you again’, it was good to have Ed here because he can open up opportunities and different pathways if you do want to go into music,” Jam said.<\/p>\n
Louis, who is also known by his artist name Hayz, met Sheeran for the first time and was among students who performed for the singer-songwriter. <\/p>\n
“He was sat there listening to our music, seeing some of our talent,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s a great opportunity, especially for someone like me, I like to make music, I’ve been doing it for years.<\/p>\n
“He took time out of his day to come and see us and appreciate our music.”<\/p>\n
Jam, who also performed, added: “We showed him a bit of our music and he was happy with it, he said we’ve got a lot of chances”.<\/p>\n
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Jamie and Louis, who go by their artist names Jam and Hayz, met Ed Sheeran at Coventry Academy on Friday<\/p>\n
Hazy said for people like him, who cannot attend mainstream school, “the stereotype isn’t amazing”, but added that there was “hidden talent everywhere” and Sheeran had noticed that. <\/p>\n
“Places like this, [Coventry Academy], there’s quite a lot of kids of with autism or ADHD, who need to channel their energy into other things and music is one of the best things for it.”<\/p>\n
The student said music had helped him to “get his head straight and calm”.<\/p>\n
“It’s a great place to be and I think he [Sheeran] could see that,” he added.<\/p>\n
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Coventry City Council<\/p>\n
Sheeran’s visit also saw the launch of two new music projects to ensure young people are provided with the relevant tools to pursue pathways in music <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosie Eaton,Coventryand Charlotte Benton,West Midlands Coventry City Council Ed Sheeran revisited Coventry Academy before his performance at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-337350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Coventry City Council<\/p>\n