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.
Read Every Word of Madeleine Albright's Powerful Glamour Woman of the Year Speech
glamour.comGlamour honored Albright as a for her work as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. (She would go on to become the Secretary of State in 1997.) “One of just seven women among the U.N.'s 185 ambassadors—and the only woman on its top-level Security Council—Albright believes that women's issues like family planning and economic empowerment are as important a part of world politics as treaties and missiles,” Glamour wrote in the profile of the diplomat for the magazine. “She sent that message as chair of the U.S.
delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women: 'Coerced abortions and sterilizations, children sold into prostitution, genital mutilation, dowry murders, girls who just turn up ”missing"… Some say this is all cultural and there is nothing we can do about it.
I say it's criminal, and we all have an obligation to stop it.”Albright's speech at the awards ceremony later that year also exemplifies how dedicated Albright was toward advancing women across the globe.
Her speech, in full, below: “It is a great honor to represent the United States of America in the United Nations. And I think from hearing about my background you know for someone who wasn't born here to be able to sit behind that sign every day that says ‘the United States’ is the highest honor of all. "When I got to the U.N.
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