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Watch: Stellenbosch University Choir performs Ed Sheeran’s ‘Supermarket Flowers’ [video]

Listen to the Stellenbosch University Choir’s beautiful rendition of Ed Sheeran’s ‘Supermarket Flowers’.

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While Capetonians are getting ready for Ed Sheeran’s last performance in South Africa, here’s the Stellenbosch University Choir performing his song, ‘Supermarket Flowers’.

The choir performed a beautiful rendition of the song arranged by Andre van der Merwe at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod 2018.

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The video which was uploaded in December 2018 has been a big hit among South Africans who are both fans of the choir and of Sheeran, clocking in over 90 000 views.

Watch: Stellenbosch University Choir ‘Supermarket Flowers’

The song was included on Sheeran’s third studio album “Divide” in 2017. It was supposedly not considered to appear on his album at first.

In an interview, Sheeran revealed that the song is about his late grandmother.

He said: “She was in a hospital near my house where I was making the album so I saw her quite a lot while making the album and she passed away while I was in the studio. So that’s my first reaction for anything that happens to me, good or bad, pick up a guitar.”

The song was initially only written as a tribute to his grandmother, written from the viewpoint of his mother.

His father first suggested that he should play the song at her funeral, which he did, and his grandfather then urged that it should be included on the album after hearing it at the funeral.

Sheeran said: “My grandfather just turned to me [at the funeral], he was like you have to put that out, that has to go on the record. It’s such a good memory, that’s why it’s ended up on there.”

Sheeran will perform in South Africa for the last time on 28 March 2019. Fans of the ‘Perfect’ singer loved his first performances in Cape Town and Johannesburg thus far.

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