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.
Jury in R Kelly trial hear recordings of abuse
completemusicupdate.comThe jury in the ongoing R Kelly trial in New York yesterday heard two recordings which, prosecution lawyers say, back up their allegations that the star abused numerous women and girls.Jurors listened to the recordings through headphones, meaning press and members of the public in attendance, and R Kelly himself, did not get to hear what they contained.However, when prosecutors sought permission to play the recordings from the judge earlier this week, they gave some insight into what jurors would hear in written documents.
They said that, in one recording Kelly can be heard accusing an unidentified woman of lying to him, after which he assaults her, declaring: “If you lie to me, I’m going to fuck you up”.In the other recording, Kelly is.
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