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.
Juilliard Black Alumni Association Calls On Board of Trustees To Take Action
variety.comAntonio Ferme editorThe Juilliard Black Alumni Association (JBAA) outlined its mission statement and the steps it hopes the school will institute in order to create a more equitable conservatory in a letter sent to the school’s board of trustees earlier this week.Twenty five Black alumni of The Juilliard School formed the organization in May in response to the controversial “Slavery Saturday” workshop curated by the drama division on Sept.
5, 2020. That immersive workshop, which reportedly involved sounds of “cracking whips, rattling chains, slave auction shop talk, and racial slurs” in an effort to replicate the experience of being enslaved.
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