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 trumpet legend Herb Alpert helped the Police, the Carpenters and Janet Jackson ‘Rise’ at A&M Records
nypost.comthe Rolling Stones in the same year with Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’ “Whipped Cream & Other Delights,” the No. 1-selling album of 1966.And six decades later, he recently found himself in the same conversation with Taylor Swift when she tied his long-standing record for having four albums in the Billboard Top 10 at the same time.“I did a little video to congratulate her,” Alpert told The Post. “You know, I don’t listen to her records all the time.
But I like her a lot. I think she’s smart, she’s sensitive, she certainly knows her audience, and she has a point of view. I think she’s great.”Certainly, Alpert knows a thing or a thing or two about recognizing a great artist when he sees one.
As the “A” in A&M Records — which he co-founded in 1962 with Jerry Moss, who passed away in August — he was instrumental in launching the colossal careers of Cat Stevens, the Carpenters, Carole King, the Police, Janet Jackson and more.
And he also hit No. 1 himself both as a singer-trumpeter (1968’s “This Guy’s in Love with You”) and as a straight-up instrumentalist (1979’s “Rise”).
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