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.
Miss America 1942 Jo-Carroll Dennison, a swimsuit rebel, dead at 97
nypost.comconfirmed to CNN on Monday.Born in 1923 in Florence, Arizona, Dennison grew up in her parents’ traveling “medicine show,” in which she sang, dance and rode trick horses.
She was training as a secretary before being scouted for the Miss Tyler pageant in Tyler, Texas.Dennison wrote in her memoir “Finding My Little Red Hat” — published in September 2021 — that she had “sworn never to perform in public again” following those medicine show days.
However, she eventually agreed to compete in the pageant on the promise of a free swimsuit from a high-end department store.
After winning, she went on to nab the Miss East Texas and Miss Texas titles, before competing in — and winning — Miss America in 1942 at 18.“The Miss America Organization is.
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