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.
Spotlight: Coming To The Clarice In College Park, Maryland
metroweekly.comPeter and the Wolf featuring a narrator and visual effects. (4/30, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., campus-wide).That’s the tip of the many upcoming attractions scheduled at The Clarice over the next month.Other highlights include: The Grammy-nominated St.
Lawrence String Quartet, in a performance of works by Joseph Haydn and Cesar Franck, plus Osvaldo Golijov Ever Yours, an octet, billed as a chamber music experiment, and performed with UMD School of Music’s Thalea String Quartet (4/22, Dekelboum Concert Hall).The recital “L’Chaim: To Life!” featuring eight members of the UMD School of Music faculty as soloists celebrating the music of 20th-century Jewish composers, including Schoenfield, Bernstein, Golijov, Gershwin, Ran, and Kattenburg (4/23, Gildenhorn Recital Hall).A production of Lydia R.
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