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.
Welcome back: The Royal Albert Hall comes to life in celebration of its 150th anniversary
msn.comth birthday year. So Monday's grand birthday celebration, originally planned for March 29 - the actual birthdate - has taken on an extra significance.
It also marked the day when by welcoming in a full audience, the hall could come back to life and begin to restore its finances.
It will be a long haul. It has lost £70 million in unsold and refunded tickets. But there’s no sign of gloom at the hall, in fact the heartening thing was how everyone had a spring in their step. “I just love this place,” said one suntanned patron to me, “and I’ve been dying to get back. ”One usher told me how sad the last 17 months have been, with those endless circular corridors empty and silent.
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