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.
Drake Remembers Earning Just $100 To Open For Ice Cube When He Started Out
etcanada.comDrake really did start from the bottom. In a post on his Instagram Story, the Canadian rapper reshared a post showing how much he earned opening for Ice Cube at Toronto’s Kool Haus in 2006. READ MORE: Drake Wins Songwriter Of The Year At 2022 SOCAN Awards According to the document, Drake made just $100 for the performance, possibly his first concert, in which he plays songs from his first mixtape, Room for Improvement. “This is for anybody getting 100 a show right now,” Drake wrote in a caption, “keep going.” READ MORE: Drake Marks 50 Billion Streams With Special FC Barcelona Kit Drake, of course, kept going, becoming one of the top artists in the world, including reaching a milestone 50 billion streams on Spotify, the first to ever reach that mark.
Meanwhile, Kool Haus closed in 2015, but Drake has contributed to reviving live music in Toronto with the opening the new 2,500-capacity venue History in 2021.
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