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.
Artist's impressions of a planned new school in Littleborough
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDon't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox This is the first look of how a new primary school in Rochdale could look.
Littleborough Community Primary School is to be rebuilt under the Government's 10 year £1bn school rebuilding programme. Artist's impressions have been released ahead of a planning application being submitted in May.
Under the plans being put forward by construction firm Wates the existing primary school, dance studio and children's centre will be demolished.
But the current infant block will be retained and the children's centre will be moved into there, while the sports centre will not be affected by the plans.
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