Artist

BOOKER ANDERSON

HUMA205

12/06/2013

One of the Artist I’m choosing is Taylor Swift, she is a young country pop singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress. Swift was born December 13, 1989 in Reading Pennsylvania, U.S. and her Birth name is Taylor Alison Swift. Swift is a multi- Grammy award – winning American singer/songwriter. And some interesting facts about Swift, she grew up on a Christmas-tree farm in Pennsylvania, and her Grandmother was a professional opera singer, Swift also began performing at the age of 10, and at 14 was the youngest staff songwriter ever hired by Sony Tree publishing house in Nashville, and she also wrote or co-wrote all of her songs on her self- titled debut album, and in 2009 made her acting debut,and in 2010 became the youngest artist in history to win the Grammy award for Album of the Year, and Swift was only 20 years old at the time. Also Swift was named Billboard’s Women of the Year in 2011. She was also named the American Music Awards Artist of the Year, as well as the Entertainer of the Year for both Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music. Swift is also the top-selling digital artist in music history.

My next artist I am going to discuss is Leonardo de Vinci, perhaps most noted for an artist da Vinci was also an inventor an architect and chronicler of science, he was born April 15, 1542 in Vinci, Italy, and was born out of wedlock to a prominent attorney notary, and a young peasant girl. His early childhood years were spent living on his father’s family estate in Vinci. And during this time period of his life he was greatly influenced by an uncle and he loved the nature and help him mature during his formative years. da Vinci had not received much of a formal education, but his father recognized his potential as an artist and when da Vinci was at the age of 14 or 15 he was sent to apprentice with...