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.
Irish musician Kehli won’t ‘stop the battle’ to bring female voices to the fore
evoke.ie‘I’m not going to stop the battle to get my music out there,’ Kehli, aka Kelly Irwin, states fiercely as she knows that being a woman in the music industry isn’t easy.
She’s faced her fair share of disappointment and uphill battles to get to where she is in her career now. The 20-year-old has been chasing her dream of stardom since the tender age of four.
The Dublin native jokes that she has always been ‘a stage school kid’ and originally dreamed of making a name for herself on the West End stage, with the role on her vision board being, once upon a time, Elphaba from the hit musical Wicked.
However, she, and her fans, have Beyoncé to thank for her turning her back on her drama dreams and opting to focus on her music career. ‘Beyoncé is
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