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.
Pelé records song with Rodrigo y Gabriela to mark his 80th birthday
completemusicupdate.comRodrigo y Gabriela have teamed up with legendary footballer Pelé to record a song marking his 80th birthday, titled ‘Acredita No Véio’, which translates as ‘Listen To The Old Man’.Not simply a footballer warbling over a half-arsed track, it turns out that Pelé is actually a keen songwriter.
He just never really thought to mention it. “I didn’t want the public to make the comparison between Pelé the composer and Pelé the footballer”, he says. “That would have been a huge injustice – in football, my talent was a gift from God.
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