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.
Ukrainian ballet star Ivan Putrov on uniting the dance world for charity gala
msn.comRoyal Ballet star Putrov has directed Dance For Ukraine alongside Romanian ballet dancer Alina Cojocaru, whom he trained alongside in Kyiv before joining London’s Royal Ballet School.
The event will be held at the London Coliseum on March 19 with the funds raised donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to provide aid to people fleeing the Ukraine.
Putrov, who was born in Kyiv, told the PA news agency: “We have so many loved ones and people who looked after and cared for us back in Ukraine, back in Kyiv, at the (dance) school, at the company, the National Ballet Of Ukraine, that we feel like the rest of the world, that we need to do something and so we’re doing the best we can, which is what we know: dance and produce. ”Dance For Ukraine, produced by the dance charity Inspiration In Motion, will feature artists from the Royal Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet and English National Ballet who have donated their services.
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