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.
Pose star Billy Porter kept HIV-positive diagnosis a secret for 14 years
evoke.ieStar of the hit show Pose Billy Porter has spoken out for the first time about testing positive for HIV, and the reasons behind why he kept it a secret for 14 years.
The American actor admitted that during 2007, which he says was the ‘worst year of my life’, he went to the doctor with a pimple, got his six-month HIV check, and his worst fears were met when the results came back stating that he was HIV-positive.
Billy Porter revealed that his diagnosis was met with years of shame after growing up in a religious family, and not wanting to tell his mother about it.
But 14 years on, the Broadway star has chosen to let go of this shame and speak about his illness, after the pandemic has made him reevaluate his life.
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