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.
Shredded Banksy artwork sells for record-breaking €21.9 million
evoke.ieA piece of artwork by the famed anonymous artist Banksy has broken records in auction selling for 18 times the original price.
The piece of art was bought by a European art collector for €1.18 million in 2018 at a Sotheby’s auction but the secretive artist managed to increase its value just as the gavel fell as there was a concealed shredder in the ornate gold frame holding it and it partially destroyed itself in front of the auction-goers eyes.
The spray-painted piece which depicts a young girl reaching for a balloon was originally spotted on a wall in East London and has become one of the political activist’s most well-known pieces.
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