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.
Oscars: China Selects Peter Chan's 'Leap' for International Feature Category
hollywoodreporter.comChina has picked Peter Chan's biographical sports drama Leap to represent the country at next year's Oscar race in the international feature category.
The film follows the travails and triumphs of China's women's national volleyball team over a period of more than 40 years. Gong Li stars as legendary player-turned-coach Lang Ping, a member of the Chinese squad that won a Gold Medal over the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
As a coach, she would later lead the Chinese team to gold medal glory at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Leap's cast also includes ten out of the 12 Olympic Gold medalists from China's 2016 team appearing as themselves.
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