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.
NYU's Black List-Inspired Purple List Reveals 2021 Picks (Exclusive)
hollywoodreporter.comNew York University's Black List-inspired annual selection of the best production-ready screenplays from its Tisch School of the Arts graduate film students and recent alumni, known as The Purple List, has revealed its 2021 picks.
The five screenplays, selected by a panel of industry professionals, are Adrian Cardenas' El Cuento de la Ballena / The Story of the Whale, Raha Amirfazli's In the Land of Brothers, Sontenish Myers' Stampede, Farida Zahran's The Leftover Ladies and Juan Pablo Daranas Molina's Zoe.
The Story of the Whale focuses on a Cuban fisherman who wakes up on the shore next to an enormous humpback whale he netted the night before. "The film is about the value of friendship, the complexities of aging, and the love that can be.
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