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.
Bonnie Hammer Saluted as Innovator and Trailblazer With Variety’s TV Legacy Award
variety.comCynthia Littleton Business EditorBonnie Hammer got her earliest lessons in leadership while pacing around a talk show set at WCVB-TV Boston in the early 1980s.
The executive, who is now vice chairman of NBCUniversal, was promoted to produce the station’s “Good Day” morning show six months after she joined WCVB as a coordinating producer.
It was her first big move up the ladder in the TV business. It would not be her last.“Doing morning talk was an interesting education,” Hammer recalls.
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