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.
Common to Produce Biopic of Voting Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer (Exclusive)
hollywoodreporter.comCivil and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer will be getting the biopic treatment. Common is set to produce a feature about the life of Hamer, titledGod’s Long Summer, which will follow Hamer's rise from oppressive plantation sharecropping systemin 1962 Mississippi where at 44 years of age, according to the project's synopsis "she fought against the Southern political establishment, systemic racism and misogyny by exercising her right to vote and fighting for the rights of others.
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