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.
Rebel Wilson To Release Her Directorial Debut ‘The Deb”s Soundtrack Under New Record Label Deal With Warner Music
etcanada.comRebel Wilson is stepping into the music industry. The Australian actress and singer has signed a deal with Warner Music and will have her very own, exceptionally personalized label — Rebellionaire — Deadline reports. “Take the ‘b’ out of billionaire and replace it with an ‘r’ for Rebel,” she told the publication of her partnership with the recording group, whom was set on partnering after hearing songs from Wilson’s feature directorial debut “The Deb” — a comedy/musical set in Australia.
The first release from Rebellionaire will be “The Deb”’s soundtrack, out late 2024 along with the film’s debut. Wilson was first introduced to “The Deb” over three years ago via a scholarship program she supports at Sydney’s Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP). READ MORE: Rebel Wilson Reveals She’s Auditioned For New James Bond Movie “Basically, one young person wins it and then I mentor them for a year,” the actress explained. “And as part of it, they have to pitch a show and write the show and hopefully finish it by the end of the year.” The first project to come from the program was an Australian musical called Fan Girls, which Wilson, 43, noted had an extremely successful outcome. “And then I was like, ‘Oh, hang on, I think I’ve got something here,” she said of an idea that came to mind, leading to new contracts that were set in place with ATYP, granting Wilson the right to dig into productions that came from her scholarship program, especially those worthy of greater development for stage, TV or movies.
Plus, Wilson was itching for a reason “to go back to Australia and create some Australian movies because I hadn’t shot a movie there for 12 years,” she said, speaking of 2011’s “A Few Best Men”, which she shot down under
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