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.
NAYANA IZ finds inner strength on tenacious new song “Rani”
thefader.comBorn in London to Indian parents, NAYANA IZ makes subterranean rap bangers that address themes of identity, race, and spirituality.
New song "Rani," premiering above, throws spiky production and a confident delivery to open up a conversation around the role our parents have in many of our lives and how to confront a future in which they might not be around to offer support or guidance.
The "Rani" video, co-directed by Nayana and Leila Afghan, transports the narrative to Oaxaca, Mexico and comes packed with shots of her riding through the beach town on her quad bike, as well as underwater pool moments that make the heaviness of the tune feel somehow lighter.
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