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.
Ellie Kemper Responds To Participating In Veiled Prophet Ball At Age 19: ‘Ignorance Is No Excuse’
etcanada.com“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star Ellie Kemper is responding to backlash over her participation in a debutante ball with racist origins when she was 19.
On Monday Kemper took to Instagram to apologize for her participation in the event, acknowledging its ties to white supremacy. “The century-old organization that hosted the debutante ball had an unquestionably racist, sexist, and elitist past.
I was not aware of this history at the time, but ignorance is no excuse. I was old enough to have educated myself before getting involved,” she wrote, in part.
RELATED: John Oliver Shares Story Of Racism Involving Chinese Survivors Of The Titanic “I unequivocally deplore, denounce and reject white supremacy,” Kemper, 41, writes, adding she recognizes
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