Esh Morgan scores with cover of Ed Sheeran’s ‘The A Team’

British singer Ed Sheeran wrote the song The A Team in 2011, a folk ballad about a homeless woman addicted to crack cocaine. It became his debut single and was an immediate hit. It peaked at #3 in the United Kingdom and made the top 20 in the United States.

Globally, it made the Top Ten in more than 13 countries. Now 15 years later, reggae singer Esh Morgan, son of Morgan Heritage member Mojo Morgan, has put his own spin on The A-Team. “I’ve always connected with The A-Team.

Ed Sheeran is one of the artists who showed me how powerful a song can be when it’s really just a voice, a guitar and a story. It’s a great song lyrically, and I felt like I could bring my own emotion and interpretation to it without taking away from what made the original special,” Esh Morgan told Observer Online on Friday. His acoustic performance of The A Team at the recently held Reggae Land concert in the United Kingdom, which was filmed as a music video, has racked up more than one million views since it was uploaded to YouTube less than two weeks ago.

He shared why he decided to perform an acoustic rendition of the song. “That’s really where I feel most exposed as an artist, in a good way. When it’s just me and the guitar, there’s nowhere for the song or the voice to hide.

I wanted people to hear me and connect with the emotion of the song before anything else. It also represents the kind of artist I’m developing into,” said Esh Morgan, who also shared the experience of performing in front of more than an estimated 50,000-strong audience. Walking out with just my guitar and seeing that many people in front of me was definitely a moment I’ll never forget.

But once I started playing, I just locked into the song. Then hearing the reaction from the crowd at the end was probably the biggest part for me. You never really know how people are going to respond, especially when you’re introducing yourself to an audience that big, so hearing that roar was special.” Morgan is obviously quite taken aback by the response to the video.