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.
National Independent Venue Assn. to Be Honored at 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony
variety.comJem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe National Independent Venue Association — a.k.a. NIVA, the coalition that has played a monumental role in helping the country’s indie venues to survive the pandemic — will be honored for its work at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in Ohio on Saturday (Oct.
30).Formed just weeks after the pandemic forced nearly every independent venue in the U.S. to close in March of last year, NIVA, its leadership and its 2,000-plus members played a vital role in obtaining federal relief funding for independent venues via the $16 billion “Save Our Stages” act, which passed in late December after the organization led a savvy and effective awareness campaign on Capitol Hill.
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