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.
John J. Rigas Dies: Former Adelphia Cable TV Company Founder Was 96
deadline.comJohn J. Rigas, whose high-flying success as the founder of Adelphia Cable ended in disgrace and prison over shareholder fraud, died today in Coudersport, Pa.
He was 96 and his death was confirmed by a funeral director in the town.Rigas was at one time an admired businessman and American success story.
He turned a $300 investment in a small cable TV system into the nation’s sixth-largest communications empire, building a family business at a time when cable ruled.At its height, the family-run Adelphia Communications Corporation had 5.5 million customers in more than 30 states.
The money flowed so much that the family bought the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League.That ended in 2004, when Rigas and his son, the Adelphia CFO, were
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