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 Taylor Swift and Hayley Williams' friendship as Paramore set to open Eras tour in Edinburgh
dailyrecord.co.ukTaylor Swift will be bringing her Eras World Tour to Edinburgh in just a matter of days to perform three nights at Murrayfield Stadium.
The three hour long show boasts an impressive 44-track setlist but before the Love Story singer takes to the stage, fans will be treated with a set from American rock band, Paramore, who are the support act for all of Swift's UK performances.Lead vocalist of the band, Hayley Williams, 35, has been a good friend of Taylor's for many years so it's no surprise the Cruel Summer star offered the band a space on the European leg of her epic world tour.Paramore, who rose to fame back in the early 2000s, are expected to play around nine songs with a 40 minute set and even include their own special surprise song each night, similarly to Swift.Taylor, 34, and Hayley, 35, have several things in common, both being highly gifted musicians and talented vocalists, but here we take a closer look at how they came to be such good friends.The pair were first introduced when they were still teenagers by none other than Taylor's own mum, Andrea Swift at a Grammys after party in 2008.Speaking on Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight show, the Paramore star revealed that the Cruel Summer star had been her "first industry friend".She recalled: “We were at some Grammy party — it was actually Timbaland’s Grammy party.
Huge. I was very nervous, but a woman came up to me and she said, ‘I’m Taylor Swift’s mom and, you know, Taylor doesn’t have a lot of friends her age that do music. "And I would love to, like, you know, introduce you guys or get your number.'” Join the Daily Record's WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. Despite this, Hayley admits that she didn't reach out
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