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.
IATSE Agrees to First-Ever Annual Census to Measure Union’s Diversity
variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees announced on Wednesday that it will conduct its first-ever diversity survey, as the entertainment industry faces pressure to become more inclusive in the below-the-line ranks.The union, which represents 150,000 members in the U.S.
and Canada, said it would undertake its first membership census in the spring of 2022. The census will be conducted annually after that.Many of the details remain to be worked out.
The census depends on members’ willingness to participate, and on the cooperation of the international union’s 361 locals.“It’s historically been on them to collect that data,” said Jonas Loeb, the spokesman for the international union.
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