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.
'Footnotes' Book Excerpt: Caseen Gaines Tells Story of Black Artists Behind Broadway's 'Shuffle Along' (Exclusive)
hollywoodreporter.comAs Broadway continues to be shut down amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, author Caseen Gaines is giving readers a chance to experience opening night again in his new book.
InFootnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way(Sourcebooks), out May 25, Gaines transports readers to New York in the roaring twenties to tell the story of the artists behind therevolutionaryproductionShuffle Along, the first Broadway show with anall-Black cast and creative team.Further, Gaines examines how lyricist Noble Sissle, composer Eubie Blake and comedians Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles defied the odds and overcame racism, poverty and violence to break down racial barriers and bring jazz music to the mainstream, usher in the Harlem.
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