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.
Lucinda Riley (1966–2021), author known for “The Seven Sisters” series
legacy.comLucinda Riley was a bestselling Irish author of historical fiction, known for her “The Seven Sisters” series and her 2019 No.
1 Sunday Times bestseller, “The Butterfly Room.”Riley was an actress in her young life before turning to writing after an illness interrupted her acting career.
Her debut novel, “Lovers and Players,” was published in 1992 under her maiden name, Lucinda Edmonds. She followed it with almost two dozen more books.
Riley began her well-known series, loosely based on the Greek myth of the Pleiades, in 2014 with “The Seven Sisters.” The series’ seventh book, “The Missing Sister,” was published in April 2021 and quickly climbed bestseller lists.
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