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.
Byker Grove’s Spuggy star Lyndyann Barrass looks unrecognisable more than 30 years on from debut
thesun.co.ukBYKER Grove first graced our screens three decades ago - and one of its stars looks completely unrecognisable since appearing.
While the beloved show may have spawned some glowing careers, for one cast member, it was the job that would eventually end their time in the industry altogether.
Lyndyann Barrass was one of the originals, enjoying four years playing the red-haired youngster, Spuggy. But it was her role on Byker Grove which quickly ended her time as an actress a few years later.
She told The Sun: "I appeared in a few one-off dramas, but I’d been typecast as the redhead from ‘that Geordie show’ and struggled to find work. "Aged 21, I joined a band called Angel, but we weren’t successful and I left after a year.
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