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.
Clare Grogan on Altered Images' first album in nearly 40 years and still being embarrassed Spandau Ballet's True was written about her
dailyrecord.co.ukUsually it’s the parents telling their kids to turn the music down. But when Clare Grogan and husband, Stephen Lironi, were writing Altered Images’ first album in 39 years in their north London house during lockdown, their teenage daughter Ellie, 17, would burst in and shout “would you turn it down please”.It’s no reflection on the music – songs such as Your Life is Mine and Double Reflection match 80s band’s classics like Happy Birthday and Pinky Blue.
And it did end up a family affair with Ellie singing on some of the songs.Clare, 60, from Glasgow said: “She’s not going to express too much praise or appreciation because she is a teenager.
Because of lockdown we were stuck at home and recorded a lot of this album in Stephen’s studio, which is next door to Ellie’s bedroom.“We drove her completely nuts and quite often she’d storm into the studio and shout ‘would you turn it down please’?
But I did twist her arm and get her to sing on a couple of the tracks because she’s got a beautiful voice.“I don’t want to sound like the Partridge Family because we are anything but, but it was nice to get her involved.
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