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.
Don Zimmermann, Former President of Capitol EMI Records, Dies at 85
hollywoodreporter.comDon Zimmermann, former president and COO of Capitol EMI Records, died Friday in Huntington Beach, California, after fighting a respiratory infection, his wife, Rosa, announced.
He was 85. A longtime Capitol/EMI employee, Zimmermann held numerous sales and marketing positions since the 1960s, when he served as a salesman and district sales manager in San Francisco.
Zimmermann moved his way up the ladder, transferring to Chicago, New York and then to the Capitol Tower headquarters in Hollywood, where he became executive vp and COO in 1976.
He was named president of Capitol in 1982, had a stint as president of Capitol/EMI North America and then returned as Capitol president in 1984.
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