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.
Al Pacino to release “astonishingly revelatory” memoir ‘Sonny Boy’
nme.comAl Pacino has announced details of his “astonishingly revelatory” memoir Sonny Boy which is set for release later this year.The Scarface and The Godfather actor’s book will be published by Penguin Random House and has been described in a press release as the “memoir of a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide.” The statement continues, calling the book “an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full.”Sonny Boy will cover the legendary actor’s childhood in New York, his upbringing with his “fiercely loving but mentally unwell mother and her parents”, his crew of friends in the Bronx along with the years he spent attending New York’s fabled High School of Performing Arts.The book will also discuss Pacino’s work in New York’s avant garde theater scene in the 60s and 70s before his major movie break with The Panic of Needle Park, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon.Speaking of Sonny Boy in a press release, Pacino shared: “I wrote Sonny Boy to express what I’ve seen and been through in my life.
It has been an incredibly personal and revealing experience to reflect on this journey and what acting has allowed me to do and the worlds it has opened up.
My whole life has been a moonshot, and I’ve been a pretty lucky guy so far.”Sonny Boy is set for release on October 8. Visit here to pre-order the memoir.In other news, Pacino made a minor slip-up when announcing the winner of the Best Picture award at yesterday’s (March 10) Oscars ceremony.The Scarface star didn’t seem to follow the traditional process of reading out the full list of nominees before announcing the winner.
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