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.
Matthew McConaughey Sets The Record Straight On Stoned, Naked Bongo Arrest In New Memoir
etcanada.comMatthew McConaughey is now an author, with his new memoir Greenlights set to be released on Oct. 20. In an excerpt from the new book published by The Times, McConaughey describes what went down in 1999 when he was arrested at his home in Austin, Texas while stoned, naked and playing bongos.
After a solid 32 hours of partying, McConaughey writes that he was winding down at 2:30 a.m. “It was time to smoke a bowl and listen to the beautiful African melodic beats of Henri Dikongué play through my home speakers.
It was time to stand over my drum set and follow the rhythm of the blues before they got to Memphis, on my favourite Afro-Cuban drum.
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