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 ‘so upset’ over erasure of transgender community in census
metro.co.ukTaylor Swift reveals she was left ‘so upset’ by the limited gender options available when filling out census records. Such records are used to gather and record information about members of a given population, helping to determine a location’s demographic, economic and social status.The Shake It Off hit-maker, who has long been an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, insisted there is still a long way to go when it comes to equality, while sharing her disappointment.
She told The Sun: ‘I got my census the other day and there were two choices for gender – male and female. ‘That erasure of transgender and non-binary was so upsetting to me.’‘We still have so far to go in terms of equality and protections for LGBTQ people and people in the trans.
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