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.
Ryuichi Sakamoto diagnosed with cancer for the second time
nme.comRyuichi Sakamoto, lauded composer and founder of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, has been diagnosed with cancer for the second time in a decade.Sakamoto was originally diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, a disease that he reveals is now in remission.In a new note posted on his website, the composer detailed his new diagnosis of rectal cancer, stating his ambition to still make music “for a little while longer” while “living alongside cancer”.“I was relieved after the throat cancer that I had in 2014 went into remission after six years,” he wrote. “However, unfortunately, I have been diagnosed with cancer again—this time, rectal cancer.
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