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.
Carol Duvall Dies: HGTV’s “Queen Of Crafts” Was 97
deadline.comCarol Duvall, known as HGTV’s “Queen of Crafts” and beloved host of The Carol Duvall Show, which ran on the network for more than a decade, died July 31 in Traverse City, Michigan, the New York Times reports.
She was 97. DuVall passed at an assisted living facility, where she had lived for several years, her family told the Times. Duvall began her decades-long career on local television in Grand Rapids and Detroit, MI eventually rising to national prominence with her arts-and-crafts programming with shows on ABC and HGTV.
Known for her warm presence and sunny outlook, her first broadcasting stint came in 1951 at WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, where she hosted a children’s program.
She went from there to WWJ-TV in Detroit where she spent the next 18 years in a variety of positions, including news anchor, co-producer and host of her first craft-focused program Here’s Carol Duvall.
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