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.
Giant Leap Accelerator Launches To Amplify Asian-Pacific American Screenplays
deadline.comGiant Leap Accelerator is doing its part to fight the good fight to bolster diversity and inclusion in Hollywood. The company launched a film and television development program today that will focus on discovering new Asian/Pacific American (APA) stories.Here’s how it will work: the accelerator will pair writers with industry mentors in packaging marketable projects into production as a means to introduce more Asian American representation to a consumer audience.
Giant Leap Accelerator’s curriculum marks the industry’s first paid writing program for new, non-guild APA screenwriters. As an added bonus there is no charge to apply.The program’s inaugural class will accept seven new APA writers to be assigned to screenwriters or showrunners as
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