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.
Catherine Zeta-Jones says she's living in an 'empty nest' as she encourages her children to pursue their acting dreams
msn.comMichael and I are about to become empty nesters and that term for me is so cold, 'what do you mean, they're not going anywhere, they're going off to school?'" said the Oscar-winning actor. "It gives me joy to be an empty-nester, I see what both Michael [and I] have done, and I'm not bragging, but you take two people come together and there's a creation and you guide them. "The star then talked about how her mother, Patricia, gave her a "blueprint" for raising kids when she and her brothers were brought up in Swansea in the 1970s. "I had a mother who was a blueprint for how I should be.
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