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.
Ava DuVernay Launches LEAP Initiative for "Narrative Change Around Police Abuse"
hollywoodreporter.comAva DuVernay's Array media company is launching a new initiative designed to hold police officers accountable. The Law Enforcement Accountability Project, or LEAP, which DuVernay announced in an appearance on Monday's Ellen DeGeneres Show, is a fund focused on storytelling around police violence and abuse that will commission projects across multiple forms of media including film, literature, theater, dance, fine art and music.
LEAP is designed to empower activists to pursue narrative change and is envisioned as a two-year project to launch at least 25 works of art.
DuVernay talked about the idea behind the initiative on Ellen. "I've been thinking a lot about my own rage. My own emotions," she began.
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