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.
Springsteen Covers Springsteen: Check Out Alana’s Version of Bruce’s ‘I’m on Fire’
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music It was bound to happen: Rising country singer Alana Springsteen covered a song by her surname-sake Bruce on SiriusXM’s “Fierce: Women in Music,” with a winning acoustic version of the Boss’ 1985 hit “I’m on Fire.” (Note: the two performers just share a name and are not related).
Alana’s third album, “Twenty Something,” dropped last week, and she announced major tour dates today (listed below). During the SiriusXM interview, Alana says her biggest musical role model was actually Taylor Swift. “My first concert was actually Taylor,” she tells the network’s Lori Majewski. “I saw her ‘Speak Now’ [tour] in, I believe, Charlotte, North Carolina, and I will never forget it. “I mean, what stood out to me the most was the way she connected with the fans, and just the fact that you can share a singular moment with so many people in a room over these songs that you write.
And watching the way that she saw her fans and they saw her, and they just shared those moments together. It was beautiful and I knew I had to be a part of it.” OCTOBER25 | Nashville, TN – Exit/In27 | Quapaw, OK – Downstream Casino Resort28 | Dallas, TX – The RusticNOVEMBER15 | Charlotte, NC – Evening Muse16 | Knoxville, TN – Open Chord18 | Decatur, GA – Eddie’s Attic29 | Des Moines, IA – xBk Live30 | Chicago, IL – Carol’s PubDECEMBER1 | Columbus, OH – A&R Music Bar3 | New York, NY – The Mercury Lounge5 | Stamford, CT – Palace Theater7 | Philadelphia, PA – World Café Live8 | Boston, MA – Café 939 at Berklee9 | Washington, DC – Songbyrd 10 | Pittsburgh, PA – Hard Rock Café.
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