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 To Receive Honorary Doctorate From NYU And Speak At Graduating Class Ceremony
etcanada.comTaylor Swift is graduating. New York University will award the 35-year-old singer-songwriter an honorary doctorate of fine arts on May 18 along with the class of 2022 at Yankee Stadium. READ MORE: Taylor Swift’s Chilling New Song ‘Carolina’ Features In ‘Where The Crawdads Sing’ Trailer Swift will be bestowed the official title Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa.
The “Evermore” singer will also speak at commencement during the morning gathering, which will be one of three “traditional” ceremonies that day.
The university will also be holding a “doubleheader” commencement for the classes of 2020 and 2021 who were unable to have a ceremony due to the pandemic.
NYU’s president Andrew Hamilton released a statement expressing how “thrilled” he is to “be coming together in person [again] with graduates, parents, faculty and honourees for NYU’s commencement.” “Since 2019, we have been deprived of commencement’s festive, communal joy, and its absence has been keenly felt.
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