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.
Sam Heughan Reveals He & His Brother Were Named After Characters from This Book Franchise!
justjared.comSam Heughan is confirming the origin of his name! In a new interview on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Kelly asked the 40-year-old Outlander actor if it was really true that his parents named he and his brother, Cirdan, after characters from J.R.R.
Tolkien‘s The Lord of the Rings novels. “Wow, you’re really digging me into a hole here,” Sam replied. “Yes, yes it’s true.
My brother is called Cirdan. Those Lord of the Rings fans that are out there they might recognize it. I believe he was the elf that took all the elves from Middle Earth to wherever the elves go at the end of the book.
He was the shipwright.” Sam continued, “My nickname is Sam, for Samwise.” If you didn’t know, there is a character named Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings
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