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.
From the vault: Prince, Taylor Swift and other artists whose previously unreleased music was unearthed
officialcharts.comThe late, great Prince is giving his fans a posthumous gift this week with the release of Welcome 2 America. The album - which was originally recorded for release in 2010 before being scrapped - was saved in the artist's legendary Vault at his Paisley Park complex, where over 8,000 tracks were rumoured to have been stored away.
This is by no means the first time that an artists' previously unreleased material has found its way out of the vault and back into the spotlight, years after it was initially recorded.
For the past year, Taylor Swift has been re-recording all the material from her first six albums from her previous record deal with Big Machine following music manager Scooter Braun’s controversial purchasing of her masters
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