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.
Armed robbers storm shop and flee with £100,000 in terrifying raid
manchestereveningnews.co.ukArmed robbers made off with £100,000 following a raid of a cash machine inside a shop. Two men armed with weapons burst into the off-licence on Great Stone Road in Stretford, threatened staff and then fled with bundles of cash being delivered to an ATM.
One man was hit over the head with one of the weapons during the raid on Thursday night - the second violent shop attack on the same street in two days. READ MORE: 'Yo, where that shop that buys everything': Baggage handler who carried out Manchester Airport heist caught out by his own texts Today (Saturday) police appealed for any witness the latest incident to come forward as patrols were stepped up in Stretford.
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