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 Urges Tennessee Historical Commission To Take Down ‘Racist’ Statues: ‘It Makes Me Sick’
hollywoodlife.comTaylor Swift, 30, wants all people in her home state of Tennessee to feel safe — “not just the white ones.” This was the backbone of the Grammy-winning singer’s powerful message, typed across a series of tweets and an Instagram post on June 12, as she called on the Capitol Commission and Tennessee Historical Commission to take down statues of historical figures that Taylor and countless others are calling out for their “racist” values. “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 tweeted, and added, “Taking down statues isn’t going to fix centuries of systemic oppression, violence and hatred that black people have had to endure but it
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