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 welcomes US Supreme Court decision on LGBT rights
breakingnews.ieTaylor Swift hailed a “beautiful step forward” as she welcomed a landmark Supreme Court decision protecting gay, lesbian and transgender people from workplace discrimination.
The highest court in the US voted six to three that workers cannot be discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Judges ruled a key provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlaws job discrimination of the basis of sex, extends to LGBT workers.
Swift, who frequently uses her platform to voice her support of the LGBT community, was among those celebrating the decision.
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