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.
Jay-Z & Beyonce Face Copyright Lawsuit Over 'Black Effect' Vocals
billboard.comJay Z and Beyonce are facing a lawsuit for their Everything Is Love standout track "Black Effect" after Jamaican choreographer and academic Dr.
Lenora Stines called out the couple for allegedly recording her vocals and using them in the song without her permission or credit.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, states that Dr. Stines felt exploited by the track. "To the shock, horror and chagrin of Dr.
Stines, [Everything Is Love] featured the unauthorized exploitation of her vocals on a song known as 'Black Effect,'" her lawyers write. "Dr.
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