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.
Couple's romantic proposal ended in disaster after they popped into M&S to buy a sandwich
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA bride-to-be watched in horror when the engagement ring she'd been given just two days earlier flew off her finger from the top of a multi-storey car park.
Lydia Wagstaff, 26, looked on helplessly as the ring given to her by boyfriend Henry Sleight fell into a gutter. Firefighter Henry, 29, had popped the question on a romantic trip to the Lake District while the pair were out hiking.
On the way home, the couple stopped off to pick up some sandwiches from M&S in Lancaster. READ MORE: But when Lydia spotted some pollen from the flowers her partner had bought her had fallen on her shoulder disaster struck.
As she brushed it off, the diamond flew into the air and fell several storeys. Luckily, helping was present in the form of a car park
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