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.
Guild of Music Supervisors Aims to Correct Deficiencies in Diversity Among its Membership
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans EditorAs an intense spotlight shines over Hollywood and the greater entertainment industry related to issues of parity when it comes to hiring practices, the Guild of Music Supervisors (GMS), whose board is made up of six women and five men, has proven to be the rare outlier.And it’s not just the leadership, as its members are currently 42% female and 58% male, according to recent figures collected by third-party agency Untold. “We are super jazzed about our male/ female ratio,” says Madonna Wade- Reed, who serves as the guild’s vice president. “What other organization is almost at 50/50?”But what the GMS boasts in gender balance, it lacks in diversity, Wade-Reed, herself a woman of color, acknowledges.
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