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.
Britney Spears' A-list army 'set up fighting fund to free star from conservatorship'
mirror.co.ukBritney Spears has enlisted the help of an army of A-list stars who are so desperate to free her from her conservatorship they want to set up a fighting fund, it has been claimed.
The pop princess is currently seeking to end the arrangement that has governed her life and finances since 2008. Her father Jamie was granted control over her affairs by court order in 13 years ago.
It was given after the singer was put in hospital amid concerns over her mental health, and it has been extended for more than a decade since.
In recent days it has emerged that Britney's request to have her father removed from the conservatorship had been denied, causing an outcry among her fans.
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