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.
Diplo’s mother dies just one month after his sister: ‘Cosmic gut punch’
nypost.comdeath of his mother, Barbara Pentz, on Thursday — just one month after his older sister died.“My momma just passed away. i would trade a kidney to take away the cosmic gut punch I feel right now,” tweeted the “Heartbroken” DJ and producer, whose real name is Thomas Pentz. “I cried in the airport bathroom I made small puddle and then almost slipped.
Now I’m gonna walk into the ocean and look for a shark to fight, might be the only cure for grief.”Diplo, 44, also mourned on Instagram, where he shared a carousel of throwback pictures of his beloved mother, who died Wednesday at the age of 73.A cause of death was not shared.“She was my first love, first woman in my life.
Even as a grown man it’s a cosmic gut punch to lose your mother,” Diplo wrote. The three-time Grammy winner continued to praise his mother for always supporting his music, although she “didn’t even understand it all.”“She gave me all the confidence in the world & she supported me with all her energy.
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