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.
Chicago violence up by half, 3,800 people shot this year
foxnews.comGun violence continues to plague Chicago streets with the city seeing a significant uptick in shootings and murders compared to last year.
On Tuesday, the Chicago Police Department reported 3,790 people were shot through Nov. 30, compared to 2,403 in the same time period last year.
Murders increased by more than half – 716 homicides through the end of November, compared to the 464 murders in 2019. In 2016, the city saw 715 homicides, a figure that decreased each of the following three years.
Shootings in November increased from 154 last year to 267, according to police figures. Nearly 340 people were shot over the month as well.
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