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.
Sinéad O’Connor reveals she’s retiring from music and touring in order ‘to make other dreams come true’
msn.comSinéad O’Connor has revealed her retirement from music and touring in an announcement made on Twitter. After a long career, the Irish singer, 54, confirmed her upcoming 11th album, No Veteran Dies Alone, will go ahead in January 2022 but that it would be her last.
In a series of tweets posted on Friday, she told her 83,000 followers that she was tired and it was “time to put the feet up and make other dreams come true”.
The artist, who also goes by the name Shuhada Sadaqat after her conversion to Islam, said: “This is to announce my retirement from touring and from working in the record business.
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