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.
Stephen Belden Launches Management & Production Company Death Wish Entertainment
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: After six years as a manager at More/Medavoy, Stephen Belden is going it alone, having launched his own management and production company, Death Wish Entertainment. “The dream,” Belden said, “has always been to work with a core group of clients that I absolutely adore as artists and as human beings and to be able to produce projects with and for those clients.
With this company I get to focus on exactly that and I couldn’t be more excited.” Belden explained that the name Death Wish is “a tongue-in-cheek nod to the fact that it’s harder than ever to be working in the entertainment industry right now,” underscoring at the same time that he “couldn’t be more optimistic about what the future holds for the up and coming generation of actors, writers, directors, and producers that I work with.” Additionally, he expressed his gratitude to those at his former company. “The years I spent learning from Brian Medavoy and Erwin More were incredibly formative for me as a manager and as a person,” he said. “I’ll always have nothing but love and respect for them, the way they do business, and their brilliant list of clients.” Clients joining Belden at his new shop include Gavin Leatherwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The Sex Lives of College Girls), Blu Hunt (New Mutants, Sherlock & Daughter), Lovi Poe (Seasons, Bad Man), Russell Dennis Lewis (Godless, The Queen’s Gambit), Melanie Stone (Deadstream, V/H/S/99), Louie Chapman (The Dresden Sun), Tomi Ade (Hollyoaks), Ezana Alem (Snowfall), actor-filmmaker Chasen Parker (Everyone Is Doing Great), Sophia Esperanza, Sophia Tatum (Riverdale, Samaritan), Brenna Monet, writer-musician duo Geordie Kieffer and Mitch Toler, writer Ian Kieffer, and producer Montgomery Blencowe (H
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