Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian Singer of Bossa Nova Hit ‘Girl From Ipanema,’ Dies at 83
thewrap.coma report from the Guardian. Gilberto was 83 at the time of her death. No cause of death has yet to be reported. Gilberto was awarded the Latin Jazz USA Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1992 and was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame in 2002.
Though her career was long and varied, she is still most widely known for her vocal debut. “The Girl From Ipanema,” also known as “Garota de Ipanema,” was first recorded in 1962.
The song quickly became a worldwide hit and won a Grammy for Record of the Year, launching the singer to international fame.
Despite the fact that Gilberto’s performance was instrumental to the song’s success, she was not credited on the track and only received the standard recording fee of $120.Gilberto leveraged her newfound recognition into a career.
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