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.
Father of fan who died before Taylor Swift concert pays tribute to daughter
nme.comTaylor Swift concert in Brazil this week (November 18) has paid tribute to his daughter.Swift released a statement yesterday saying she was “devastated” after hearing a fan had died before her concert show in Brazil.Ana Clara Benevides, 23, reportedly fainted at the show and suffered a cardiac arrest.
The cause of death is yet unknown.Temperatures in Brazil reached over 100 degrees (38 Celsius) and videos later circulated online of Swift pausing her show to make sure fans received water.Benevides father, Weiny Machado, 53, has spoken to Folha de São Paulo newspaper praising his “happy and intelligent” daughter.He said: “I lost my only daughter, a happy and intelligent girl.
She was about to graduate in Psychology next April, saving money. I have no words to express my pain. She left home to fulfill a dream and came back dead.”Machado went on to say how he wanted an investigation into what happened amid reports that fans were not allowed to take water into the venue, despite the high temperatures.“I want it to be found out whether they were in fact prohibited from bringing water, whether there was negligence in providing assistance.“I know that the singer was handing out water to her fans, and that is absurd for an event of this size.
Nothing will bring my daughter back, but I hope that, if negligence is confirmed, someone will be punished, so that this doesn’t happen to anyone else” (via The Mirror).
Read more on nme.com