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.
Ravil Isyanov, Actor in ‘The Americans’ and ‘NCIS: Los Angeles,’ Dies at 59
variety.comJ. Kim Murphy administratorRavil Isyanov, a film, television and voice actor who had worked in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years, died on Sept.
29 after a long illness. He was 59.Isyanov’s death was confirmed to Variety by his longtime manager Tanya Kleckner.“He was a true gentleman and worked up until [his] passing.
I’ve worked with him for 20 years and we became firm friends,” Kleckner wrote. “He will be sorely missed. We are all heartbroken by this tragic loss, a beautiful soul gone way too soon.”Isyanov was born in 1962 in the city of Voskresensk in the Soviet Union.
After completing two years in the Soviet Air Force, Ravil worked at the Khabarovsk Theatre before studying at the Moscow Art Theatre School and the Oxford.
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