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.
Taylor Swift calls for monuments to ‘racist’ historical figures to be removed
standard.co.ukTaylor Swift has called for statues which “celebrate racist historical figures” to be removed.The award-winning singer said that monuments in the US state of Tennessee show two men who were “despicable figures in our state history and should be treated as such”.She added that the statues, of newspaper editor Edward Carmack and slave trader Nathan Bedford Forrest, make her "sick", adding that "villains" do not deserve to be celebrated.Her comments come as statues around the world have been pulled down during protests about racial equality, including in the US and UK. “As a Tennessean, it makes me sick that there are monuments standing in our state that celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things,” she said.Swift added: “We need.
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