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.
Serbian Director Goran Paskaljevic Dies at 73
hollywoodreporter.comGoran Paskaljević, the director of 18 feature films including Cabaret Balkan, How Harry Became a Tree and Midwinter Night’s Dream, died Friday of lung cancerin Paris, his family announced.
He was 73. Illness did not stop him from completing his final film, Despite the Fog (Nonostante la nebbia), which was shot in Italy last year.
In the writer-director's typical conjunction of personal drama and looming social disaster, the movie is about a couple who have suffered the loss of a son and give shelter to an orphaned migrant boy.
It bowed at the Valladolid International Film Festival in Spain. Born in Belgrade on April 22, 1947, Paskaljević studied filmmaking in Czechoslovakia at the illustrious FAMU school during the Prague spring.
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