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.
Serena Williams Says People Used to Cheer When She and Venus Lost Matches
glamour.comShade 45, reflected on how she saw racial biases manifest early in her career, and how her family helped her get through it.After one of the hosts said Williams is the first famous person she's seen deal with a “hostile work environment,” the tennis champion replied, “It's just something I had to grow used to, which shouldn't be normal.”She and her sister both started playing at young ages, so unfortunately, mean-spirited crowds were nothing new to her when she reached the professional level. “It had to be normal for me to realize people weren't gonna root for me in the beginning, because I was different and I looked different,” Williams said.
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