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.
Banksy oil paintings auctioned off for £2.2m in aid of Bethlehem hospital
nme.comBanksy have sold for more than £2.2m at a London auction, with the proceeds going to a hospital in Bethlehem.The ‘Mediterranean Sea View 2017’ triptych, which addresses the European refugee crisis, went under the hammer yesterday (July 28) at Sotheby’s London branch.
The paintings were initially expected to fetch up to £1.2m.It’s been confirmed that the sale was in aid of the Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation, who will be using the proceeds to build a new acute stroke unit and purchase children’s rehabilitation equipment.“This triptych hangs in Sotheby’s galleries alongside works by some of history’s greatest landscape painters, including Bellotto, Van Goyen and Turner.
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