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.
Todrick Hall praises Taylor Swift for ‘using her voice’ to call out injustice
metro.co.ukTodrick Hall has praised Taylor Swift for speaking out against systemic racism and injustice.The 35-year-old star is glad the Look What You Made Me Do hitmaker is using her platform to raise awareness of certain issues because she’s in a position to change the minds of people ‘who feel very differently’.Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, he said: ‘I’m glad that she has gotten to a point now where she is sharing that with the world.‘I think that a lot of people who would initially gravitate towards her might be people who have very different political views.’Hall continued: ‘And very different views on the world in like, what should happen with the Black Lives Matter movement.
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