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.
John Frey, Actor, Screenwriter and Acting Teacher, Dies at 62
hollywoodreporter.comJohn Frey, an actor and screenwriter who taught acting in Lisbon, Portugal, and at the William Esper Studio in Manhattan, died Jan.
23 of heart failure in New York, his friend Frank Coelho announced. He was 62. The Bronx-born Frey graduated from the William Esper Studio, then returned in 2019 to teach the Meisner acting technique. "An artist pure of heart and generous of spirit has been taken from us far too soon," reads a statement on the studio's website. "John was a critically acclaimed director, award-winning screenwriter and among the most respected acting technique teachers in the world." Frey collaborated as an actor and/or screenwriter with Portuguese filmmaker Bruno de Almeida on such features as On the Run (1999), The Collection.
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