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.
#NoRunLeftBehind: Watch Jazmine Sullivan's Unforgettable ESSENCE Fest Performance
essence.com2021 ESSENCE Festival of Culture presented by Coca-Cola.Headlining the festival for the very first time, the Grammy-nominated songstress dazzled from start to finish as she ran through nearly every fan-favorite in her catalog of R&B classics.
Her set list included gems like Pick Up Your Feelings, Girl Like Me and Lost One from her latest album Heaux Tales, as well as the songs we all can’t get enough of like Forever Don’t Last, Holding You Down, Lions, Tigers & Bears and her breakout hit, Need You Bad, among several others.Outfitted in a stunning floor-length gold gown with a beautiful floral garden setting serving as her performance backdrop, Sullivan over-delivered and then some, floating effortlessly through rifts, runs and scales as.
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