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.
Maya Hawke turned father Ethan into a Taylor Swift fan: “It made me feel so confident”
nme.comStranger Things star and singer-songwriter Maya Hawke has remembered turning her actor father Ethan into a Taylor Swift fan.Hawke, who released second studio album ‘Moss’ last month, was talking to The Line Of Best Fit for their ‘Nine Songs’ feature, about formative tracks in musicians’ lives.Choosing Taylor Swift’s 2010 track ‘Ours’, Hawke explained: “I remember that song very distinctly.
My dad was such a powerful creative influence on me musically, he showed me so many songs and artists that I still listen to, and love and care about.
It took me a long while to be able to show him something he didn’t already know about.“‘Ours’ was the first Taylor Swift song that I played for him on guitar.
He was like, ‘Who wrote that?’, and I was like, ‘Taylor Swift!’ He told me he thought it was a really good song, and I was like, ‘Oh my god, I just brought something to my dad that he didn’t know and he likes – and I like!’ It made me feel so confident.”Hawke remembered: “He ended up taking me to see the ‘Speak Now’ tour.
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