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.
Kanye West: A rapper whose talents are matched only by his controversies
breakingnews.ieHailed as one of the greatest rappers of his generation, often by himself, Kanye West has always been a blend of prodigious talent and extreme ego.
His rise, first as a producer and then as a chart-topping musician and one half of a celebrity power-couple, has been matched only by his controversies, political dalliances and struggles with mental health.
While he was born in Georgia in 1977, West always considered himself to be a Chicago native, having moved there with his mother after his parents split up when he was three.
The fact West was a one-of-a-kind talent became evident with his debut album The College Dropout, released in 2004 to critical and commercial success and since named one of the greatest albums of all time.
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