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.
Taylor Swift appears to hold back tears with ‘Bigger Than the Whole Sky’ debut after fan’s death
nypost.comaccidental death of a fan. Swift, 33, seemingly paid tribute to Ana Clara Benevides by singing “Bigger Than the Whole Sky” off her 2022 album “Midnights” during a torrential downpour at Estádio Nilton Santos in Brazil. “Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye / You were bigger than the whole sky,” Swift sang while playing the piano.“I’ve got a lot to live without / I’m never gonna meet / What could’ve been, would’ve been / What should’ve been you.”Benevides, who had been camped out in the sweltering heat all day, reportedly suffered cardiac arrest minutes before Friday’s show started.The 23-year-old college student was “resuscitated at the stadium for about 40 minutes” but suffered a second cardiac arrest while en route to the hospital, according to Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo.The newspaper also stated that the heat index at the venue “reached 60º C” or 140° F.”“I can’t believe I’m writing these words but it is with a shattered heart that I say we lost a fan earlier tonight before my show,” Swift wrote on Instagram. “I can’t even tell you how devastated I am by this.”The singer wrote that she had “very little information” on Benevides “other than the fact that she was so incredibly beautiful and far too young.”“I’m not going to be able to speak about this from stage because I feel overwhelmed by grief when I even try to talk about it,” the “Bad Blood” singer continued. “I want to say now I feel this loss deeply and my broken heart goes out to her family and friends.
This is the last thing I ever thought would happen when we decided to bring this tour to Brazil.” The “Love Story” singer, who is currently on the international leg of her Eras Tour, canceled her show mere hours later after she deemed it too unsafe to perform..
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