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.
How The Alarm's Mike Peters Is Staying Creative In Quarantine
billboard.comThe band shares 'Irish Sea' from upcoming 'Hurricane of Change.' Striding along the sea singing a song called, well, "Irish Sea" might seem like an obvious setting for the new video from the Alarm's Mike Peters.
But the clip for the soaring, anthemic track -- shot on Rhyl Beach and premiering below from the group's upcoming project Hurricane of Change -- packs some significant emotional resonance for the singer. "The house I was born in overlooked the Irish Sea," Peters tells Billboard. "My formative up bringing was 100 yards from the real seafront, where the Irish Sea laps up onto North Wales." Of even greater significance, Peters adds, "you could argue the Alarm started on those (sands) when I was four years old, when...I met my next
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