{"id":306913,"date":"2025-12-09T12:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306913\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:36:06","slug":"surprise-visit-from-ed-sheeran-encourages-coventry-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306913\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise visit from Ed Sheeran &#8216;encourages Coventry students&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jamie, who is known by his artist name Jam, previously met Sheeran when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2qxn54g0jo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he visited the city&#8217;s Alternative Provision Academy in January<\/a> as part of the launch of his foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I gave him a hug and said, &#8216;Nice to see you again&#8217;, it was good to have Ed here because he can open up opportunities and different pathways if you do want to go into music,&#8221; Jam said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was sat there listening to our music, seeing some of our talent,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a great opportunity, especially for someone like me, I like to make music, I&#8217;ve been doing it for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He took time out of his day to come and see us and appreciate our music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jam, who also performed, added: &#8220;We showed him a bit of our music and he was happy with it, he said we&#8217;ve got a lot of chances&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie, who is known by his artist name Jam, previously met Sheeran when he visited the city&#8217;s Alternative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-306913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}