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.
DMX, New York Rapper and Actor, Dies at 50
hollywoodreporter.comDMX, the New York rapper behind such iconic songs as "Party Up (Up in Here)" and"X Gon' Give It to Ya" and the star of action movies includingExit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave and Romeo Must Die, died Friday.
He was 50. DMX,whose real name was Earl Simmons, died at White Plains Hospital in New York after being admittedApril 2 following a drug overdose and subsequent heart attack.
He had been on life support and, according to his former manager, in a "vegetative state." "Earl was a warrior who fought till the very end," read a family statement. "He loved his family with all of his heart, and we cherish the times we spent with him.
Read more on hollywoodreporter.com
