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.
Emmy Awards Statuette Gets 75th Anniversary Treatment
variety.comCharna Flam The Emmy Awards statuette is getting a 75th anniversary makeover. The Television Academy confirmed that the Emmy trophy will receive a rare enhancement for the 75th annual ceremony this year.
The numbers “75” will be etched in to the base of the award that features a female figure with wings holding up a globe-like sphere.
The Academy noted that it drew inspiration for the move from Halley’s Comet, which returns into view every 75 years. “We were trying to find a way to honor the historic nature of the anniversary.
Emmy is all about celebrating excellence, and it has been for three quarters of a century,” said Maury McIntyre, president of the Television Academy. “Those standards really haven’t changed significantly regardless of what era the greatest medium on Earth has been in.
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