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.
A Pennsylvania house that Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant grew up in was sold on Friday, with one of the hoops that the athlete would practice on still attached to the home.According to a report published Tuesday by TMZ Sports,the 5-bedroom, 3 1/2-bathroom house was occupied by the Bryant family during Kobe's adolescence.The house was placed on the market in September with an asking price of $899,000, and eventually sold for $810,000.
A place for legends: Kobe Bryant's childhood home was sold for $810K ten months after the athlete passed awayThe selling number may be symbolic, as it reflects the 81-point game that Bryant played against the Toronto Raptors in 2006, which was the second-highest scoring point total game in NBA history.
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