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 says songwriting remains “magical and mystical” to her in award speech
nme.comTaylor Swift has been honoured with the National Music Publishers Association’s Songwriter Icon Award, presented yesterday (June 9) during its annual membership meeting.As reported by Variety, in her speech, Swift thanked her publisher Universal, fans and fellow songwriters, saying the practice of writing songs remains “magical and mystical” to her.“I love songwriting so much because there’s an element to it that is still really mysterious – like I think any songwriter will tell you, when you get an idea you’re not quite sure where it floated down from, but if you can grab onto that idea and turn it into something, a piece of music, that’s where craftsmanship comes in,” Swift said in her speech.“That’s where you have the opportunity to.
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