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.
Polish singing competition says it is ‘very surprised’ to receive complaints over the show’s use of blackface
msn.comblackface. The Spanish TV series Your Face Sounds Familiar has almost 50 formats around the world and sees celebrity contestants impersonate musicians in televised performances.
As well as attempting to mimic a singer’s voice, the participants also take measures to look like the stars they are trying to imitate.
The Polish iteration of the reality show has attracted criticism after its white performers impersonated Black artists such as Bill Withers by wearing prosthetics and facial make-up that amounts to blackface.
Blackface is a racist practice in which non-Black people paint their skin darker to resemble a Black person. The performance perpetuates negative and reductive stereotypes.
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