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.
Salman Rushdie Conference Moderator Speaks Out About Moment Of Assault On Author
deadline.comSalman Rushdie’s interviewer, who was with him on stage last week when the author was stabbed, has spoken out to express his shock at what happened.Henry Reese, who was the moderator at the event near Buffalo, New York and was also attacked, was visibly still suffering with deep bruising evident around his right eye.
Reese was released from hospital soon after the attack, which saw Rushdie sustain critical injuries. He remains in hospital.Reese told the BBC he was doing “quite well” himself, adding:“Our concern is for Salman – both certainly for himself and also for what he means to the world.
He’s important to the world.”Reese spoke of the assault as being both an attack on Rushdie, and also on the mission espoused by the conference:“There couldn’t be anything more vivid in its materialisation of our values.“Our mission is to protect writers, and to see Salman Rushdie assaulted for his life is, it’s hard to describe what it is to see that happen in front of you.
The writers in our program are in the audience watching this.”Reese was asked if he would one day like to return to the conference and have the conversation with Rushdie that they were denied.
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