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.
‘Lord of the Rings’ cast rally to purchase J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford home
nme.comThe Lord of the Rings are teaming up to purchase the former home of the original books’ author, J.R.R. Tolkien.Martin Freeman, John Rhys-Davies and Sir Ian McKellen are among those teaming up with Project Northmoor to help author Julia Golding buy Tolkien’s old house in Oxford.The project aims to raise £4.5million, which will be used to “promote Tolkien’s work, allow a diverse range of fantasy writers and artists to come together to write, learn and create, and preserve the fascinating house for future generations to enjoy.”A video on Project Northmoor’s website features McKellen, who played Gandalf, Freeman who played Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit trilogy and Rhy-Davies who played Gimli and voiced Treebeard.“Unbelievably, considering his.
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