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.
‘Gangs Of Lagos’ Creator Jáde Osiberu Inks Overall Deal With Prime Video
deadline.comJáde Osiberu, the co-writer and director of Gangs of Lagos, has signed an overall deal with Prime Video, the studio behind the upcoming feature drama.Osiberu’s three-year deal will include the creation of original scripted TV and movies, produced by her production company Greoh Studios.
The deal is announced as Gangs of Lagos, Osiberu’s second feature, screens for the press at the Toronto Film Festival. The movie is set to launch as the first Nigerian Original exclusively on Prime Video later this year and is billed as a high-stakes, gritty, and hard-hitting action crime-thriller, with an authentic storyline centred on a group of friends who each have to navigate destiny, growing up on the bustling streets and neighbourhood of Isale Eko, Lagos.“I am overjoyed with this collaboration and already feel like I’m part of the Prime Video and Amazon Studios family,” said Jáde Osiberu. “It will be an absolute pleasure to introduce Prime Video audiences to the most exciting talent and storylines Nigeria has to offer, and I’m looking forward to continuing to help elevate Nigerian stories on a global scale.”The global streamer has supercharged its investment in Nigeria over the last year, unveiling original content like Gangs of Lagos and LOL: Last One Laughing Naija, the streamer’s first Nigerian-set unscripted original series.
The show is the latest remake of the Japanese format LOL, which Amazon has launched in Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, India, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain.
It sees a group of 10 famous local comedians compete to be the ‘Last One Laughing’ by trying to make their competitors laugh.
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