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.
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thefader.comSatomi Magae first became interested in the guitar in middle school, when she started writing songs in response to the blues records her father had brought from the U.S.
to their home in Tokyo. And there is a sense listening to her first three albums as Satomimagae — 2012’s awa, 2014’s koko, and 2017’s kemri — that the 32-year-old singer-songwriter studied her instrument with an inexhaustible curiosity, apparently fascinated by the environments she could render vivid with little more than an acoustic guitar and some disorienting lo-fi vocal effects.
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