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 Speed, 'Abby' and 'The Mack' Star, Dead at 76
etonline.comher obituary, she died on Jan. 14 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She was 76 years old.Speed was best known for her starring role as the title character in the 1974 horror film, which was about a woman who is possessed by an African sex spirit.
Other memorable movies she starred in include 1973's and 1974's .According to her obituary, she held the distinction of being the first Black homecoming queen in Santa Clara County in California and was one of the first Black people to receive a scholarship for the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, California.
Aside from her memorable acting roles, she also wrote in 1980 and and in 2002. She was also a singer and songwriter, writing and singing «My Soul Is a Witness» for and «I Can Make It» for, the 1973 film about an unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers who becomes emotionally attached to her students.Speed is survived by her grandson, Marc Speed, and her sister, Barbara Morrison. «She will be remembered for her style, personality, quick wit and 'I am going to do it my way no nonsense attitude,'» her obituary reads.
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