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.
International Women’s Day: Lu Kala To Join Forces With Spotify For Equal Canada
etcanada.comLu Kala, a Congolese-Canadian musician, will collaborate with Spotify to co-curate songs for its Equal Canada playlist on March 8 in honor of International Women’s Day.
By including “a diverse range of inspiring stories of movements around the world, through music and at full volume,” Spotify stated in a news release that the playlist intends to spotlight Canadian women in music. “Music offers me the ability to be heard but not always seen,” Lu Kala explained in the press release. “I believe that women need support on all fronts.
Feeling invisible is a very real thing. You never quite know what that looks like unless you’re in it. Over the years, there has been far more inclusion in spaces that were once male dominated but we still have a long way to go.
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