Jamal Edwards: 5 Things To Know About Late Music Producer & Ed Sheeran’s Best Friend

• Ed Sheeran credits euphony shaper Jamal Edwards with his occurrence successful the euphony industry.
• Jamal died astatine property 31 successful 2022.
• Ed has precocious spoke retired astir his champion person successful a docuseries trailer.

Ed Sheeran has made nary concealed of who helium believes helped him emergence to the apical of the euphony industry. In a caller Disney+ trailer for his docuseries, Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All, the hitmaker said of the precocious Jamal Edwards, “You person to hold for 1 idiosyncratic to be, ‘that’s great,’ and for me, it was Jamal,” helium said, referring to Jamal arsenic his “best friend.”

But Ed wasn’t conscionable a high-profile euphony shaper — helium had a afloat productive and originative career, spanning from manner to penning and adjacent directing. Here’s what other to cognize astir the precocious Jamal Edwards, Ed Sheeran’s closest friend.

Jamal was calved successful England.

Jamal Edwards died successful 2022. (David Fisher/Shutterstock)

Like Ed, Jamal was calved successful England. The superstar shaper began his beingness successful Luton, England, but aboriginal moved to Acton, West London, wherever helium lived with his sister Tanisha, mom, Brenda Edwards, and stepfather, Patrick. His parent Brenda was erstwhile a contestant connected The X Factor, per The U.S. Sun.

He died successful Acton connected February 20, 2022.

He was the laminitis of SBTV.

Jamal famously founded SBTV, a media level launched successful 2006 and dedicated to discovering emerging artists. Among them were Ed himself, on with Stormzy, Emeli Sandé, and Jessie J, among others. Rita Ora, Mist, and Tori Kelly besides appeared astatine assorted points connected SBTV.

He was an writer and a director.

The multi-talented producer, however, didn’t bounds his accomplishments to music. He besides directed commercialized contented for Subway and directed the video for Ed’s “Bad Habits” Remix. In 2013, helium published an ebook entitled, Self Belief: The Vision: How To Be a Success connected Your Own Terms

For his varied accomplishment, Jamal’s portrait, taken by Simon Frederick, was entered into the imperishable postulation astatine The National Portrait Gallery successful London.

Jamal was precise adjacent to Ed.

Per his docuseries trailer, Jamal’s decease (according to the BBC, due to arrhythmia caused by recreational drugs), was devastating to Ed, who considered him a “best friend.” “The nonaccomplishment took implicit my life,” helium said successful the clip, besides breaking down successful tears astatine 1 point. He “hasn’t had the clip to process and beryllium astatine bid with his thoughts,” helium besides revealed.

Ed Sheeran considered Jamal his ‘best friend.’ (Matt Baron/Shutterstock)

In an Instagram post successful March of 2023, Ed broke down successful excruciating item his symptom implicit the nonaccomplishment and different beingness challenges. “Within the abstraction of a month, my large woman got told she had a tumor, with nary way to attraction until aft the birth,” helium wrote. “My champion person Jamal, a member to me, died suddenly, and I recovered myself lasting successful tribunal defending my integrity and vocation arsenic a songwriter. I was spiraling done fear, depression, and anxiety. I felt similar I was drowning, caput beneath the surface, looking up but not being capable to interruption done for air.”

He had a vocation successful fashion, arsenic well.

On apical of everything else, Jamal had a vocation successful fashion. The “tastemaker,” arsenic Ed called him, released a headwear postulation (per his Wikipedia page), designed bucket hats for the postulation himself, erstwhile walked connected the runway for Hermes, and was 1 of the faces for the Primark AW19 postulation successful 2019.

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