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.
Jeanne Robertson (1943–2021), humorist known for family-friendly laughs
legacy.comJeanne Robertson was a humorist who was known for her wholesome stories of family life, featured on YouTube and Sirius XM.Robertson began her career in public speaking as a young woman, when she was crowned Miss North Carolina 1963 and went on to win Miss Congeniality in the year’s Miss America pageant.
She continued taking speaking engagements after her year as Miss North Carolina, in addition to working as a physical education teacher.
Robertson became the president of the National Speakers Association in 1985, and later, the internet helped her humor reach a wide audience.
Clips of her humorous stories received millions of views on YouTube and were played on Sirius XM’s Blue Collar Comedy and Family Comedy channels.
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