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Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American actress and singer best known for portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place. She subsequently ventured into feature films and has starred in the television movies Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, and Princess Protection Program. She made her starring theatrical film debut in Ramona and Beezus.
Her career has expanded into the music industry; Gomez is the lead singer and founder of the pop band Selena Gomez & the Scene, which has released three RIAA Gold certified studio albums, Kiss & Tell, A Year Without Rain, and When the Sun Goes Down, spawned three RIAA Platinum certified singles, "Naturally", "Who Says" and "Love You Like a Love Song" and charted four No. 1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs. Gomez has also contributed to the soundtracks of Tinker Bell, Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place, and Shake It Up after signing a record deal with Hollywood Records.
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz. He organized at least fifty recording sessions as a leader during his recording career, and appeared as a sideman on many other albums, notably with trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk.
As his career progressed, Coltrane and his music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension. His second wife was pianist Alice Coltrane, and their son Ravi Coltrane is also a saxophonist. Coltrane influenced innumerable musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history. He received many posthumous awards and recognitions, including canonization by the African Orthodox Church as Saint John William Coltrane. In 2007, Coltrane was awarded the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his "masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history of jazz."
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of fourteen to pursue a career in country music. She signed to the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's self-titled debut album in 2006 established her as a country music star. "Our Song", her third single, made her the youngest sole writer and singer of a number one song on the country chart. She received a Best New Artist nomination at the 50th Grammy Awards.
Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in late 2008. Buoyed by the chart success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless attracted a crossover audience and became the top-selling album of 2009. The record won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest ever Album of the Year winner. Fearless also received Album of the Year plaudits at the American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards and Country Music Association Awards, making it the most awarded album in country music history. In 2010, Swift released her third album, Speak Now, which sold over one million copies in its first week. She then embarked on the 111-date Speak Now World Tour, which was attended by over 1.6 million fans and has become one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. The album's third single, "Mean", won two Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. Swift is currently recording her fourth studio album, due for release in the fall of 2012.
Why life's never the story you wish
Why life don't give you more than you give
You can't deny you have to carry on
Feel so strong, I keep holding on
We crawlin' them days like it was only yesterday
Stargates, wonderin'; will I be frontpage?
Will I live to see my grandkids or die at young age
Will I be hot like the sun and find a spot in the shade
I kept the fade, I knew there would be days like this
I've never doubt my own ability, brother you wish
From this biss, the rhymin' defeat will never clash
Cause music was my first love and it'll be my last
Even as a kid when I couldn't even write
I would make up some songs and use my thumb for a mic
Pretend I was a god, I was the star of the show
But moms came in my room so it was time for me to go
I had a ruff time growin' up with my moms
I don't care for my pops 'cause we never had a one
He's far gone, I'm stronger because of you
Stronger than you, I pay dues, I win, you lose
Why life's never the story you wish
Why life don't give you more than you give
You can't deny you have to carry on
Feel so strong, I keep holding on
You'll remember me, when my name still was Defri
When we all had to get down in the place to be
When we had this little crew called ESP/DSP/the SP
Before you went to see the doctor with Kool Mo Dee
It was all lune in me, behind mic-standin'
Never stayed dancin', basketball sneakers with tight pants and
No doubt, he was movin' the crowd, had 'nuff styles
Committed, we hit the spotlight, we turn the party out
It wasn't all good back then, we did a little something
A little hustlin', a little snowcut 'n cops fronting
But rap took me outta there,
I look far about I see gun in my pears they outta here
I wonder why
Why life's never the story you wish
Why life don't give you more than you give
You can't deny you have to carry on
Feel so strong, I keep holding on