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.
Inside Greta Garbo’s explosive sex life — with Hollywood men and women
nypost.comGarbo,” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), which dishes on the busy love life and iconic film career of the shy girl from Stockholm who became Hollywood’s biggest star in the era when movies transitioned from silent to “talkies.” Born Greta Gustafsson in 1905 to a poor Swedish family — Gottlieb describes Garbo’s father as “a hardworking but unskilled laborer,” with some sources saying he was a “latrine cleaner” — Garbo (which she later adopted as her stage name) never liked school but loved the theater.
She schlepped around Stockholm at night just to watch the actors go through the stage door, all part of her plan to become famous herself. “She was consumed by her determination to become not only an actress but a great star,” Gottlieb writes.
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