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.
Writer, Showrunner & Actor Asha Michelle Wilson Has Got Now And She’s Making The Most Of Her Moment
essence.comshowrunner and actress Asha Michelle Wilson. So much that Wilson’s mother didn’t allow her to watch TV during the week, knowing that if she let her daughter indulge, she wouldn’t get anything else done.
But Wilson was clever and found ways to work around her mother’s no-TV mandate. “I remember once sitting at the dining room table, behind me my parents were watching TV and above me, there was this picture on the wall,” Wilson recalls. “In the glass reflection I could see the TV, So I was like, ‘Ok, I’ll do my homework but I’ll sneakily watch.’ It didn’t matter what it was, I just really liked the stories that were being told.”By the time she was six years old, Wilson had decided she wanted to be a part of that world in one way or another.
While her career has provided her the opportunity to be involved in television in virtually every way, Wilson got her start writing. “I would go to my parents’ computer and write a little scene and work on it every few days, back when we had a computer room,” Wilson tells ESSENCE with a laugh.
Growing up in Southern Florida, she didn’t know anyone who worked in television so she pursued anything art related. Wilson went to writing and theater camps, wrote for her high school newspaper and yearbook.
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