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 Oregon USA Manju Bangalore is headed to space: A 'dream come true'
foxnews.comMiss Oregon USA is headed to space. Manju Bangalore recently spoke with Fox News Digital about her lifelong dream to become an astronaut, saying she has "wanted to be an astronaut since [she] was 4 years old" and heard about Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian woman to go to space.
She is now one step closer to achieving her goal. "I got selected by a company called ZERO-G, and they've been in operations for almost 20 years, and they are bringing me on as the first Miss USA State queen to do a zero gravity flight.
So I'm going to be bringing the sash, my crown, and floating in weightlessness on their flight," she said. "I'm really excited because this is part of their influencer program, and so I'm going to be one of their first influencers to also do this." The flight will take place on Aug.
19 in Oakland, California. Bangalore explained to Fox News Digital that this is one of two ways to experience zero gravity – the other way being in a modified aircraft here on Earth.
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