Ed Sheeran

The carrot-topped chart maestro hits Paris, mixing up loop-pedalled acoustica, hip hop beats and out-and-out pop balladry for a swooning, shrieking audience. His tearjerking single ‘The A-Team’ catapulted him into the mainstream, his chart-busting 2011 debut album ‘+’ has kept him lodged there, and the Rick Rubin follow-up ‘X’ (‘multiply’) has made him an inescapable force on both sides of the Atlantic.