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.
Child poverty rises across Scotland as campaigners demand Universal Credit payment boost
dailyrecord.co.ukchild poverty in Scotland has been exposed in scandalous new figures showing a rise almost everywhere in the past five years.
Only one council area managed to improve - by just less than one percent - while the rest of the country saw young people fall further behind.
Nearly one in three children in Glasgow were classed as "living in poverty" after housing costs in the most recent study, the highest proportion in Scotland.
Campaigners demanded the UK Government commits to keeping the £20 emergency increase in Universal Credit benefits, introduced at the start of the coronavirus crisis.
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