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.
‘Barry’ Star Anthony Carrigan Reveals He Was Told To Quit Acting Due To His Alopecia
etcanada.comAnthony Carrigan is a standout on HBO comedy “Barry” in the role of Chechen mobster NoHo Hank, but there were some who thought he should quit acting when alopecia led him to lose his hair. “There was a moment where my alopecia had progressed so much so that I had lost pretty much half [of] my scalp, both my eyebrows [and] all my eyelashes,” Carrigan said in an interview with People. “It really threw everyone that I was working with, and no one knew what to do with me.” As a result, Carrigan admitted that he lost his confidence. READ MORE: Bill Hader Teases The ‘Mostly Bad’ Things In Store For His Character In New Season Of ‘Barry’ “I was told by a number of people, you’re not going to be able to do this.
You’re not attractive anymore. You will fail if you try to do this,” he recalled. “And I’m one of those people that if you told me that I can’t do something, I will.
Period.” In fact, he explained, the more people told him he couldn’t make it as an actor, the more determined he became to prove them wrong. “What was left was just this kind of burning passion to do it anyway — to make it happen anyway,” Anthony said.
According to Carrigan, it’s taken him some time to come to terms with his alopecia. READ MORE: Bill Hader Talks About Being Forced To Work Out For ‘Barry’ Role On ‘Ellen’ “Talking about it was very therapeutic for me.
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