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.
Read Taylor Swift’s Speech Welcoming Carole King, ‘the Greatest Songwriter of All Time,’ Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
variety.comChris Willman Music WriterCarole King surely had more than her ears burning and her eyes welling as she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Saturday night.
She might have felt the earth move under her feet as she accepted the powerful praise of Taylor Swift, whose 700-word speech lauded her forebear as “the greatest songwriter of all time.”One sentence in particular has already gone down in Swiftie lore, or at least caused a lot of Swift fans to Google the sleeve of the 50-year-old “Tapestry” album: “It was a watershed moment for humans in the world who have feelings, and for cats who had big dreams of one day ending up on iconic album covers.”King was already a member of the Hall of Fame, as a songwriter inducted alongside.
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