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.
Crews battle 'first moorland fire of the season' on Saddleworth Moor
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor the latest news from in and around Oldham sign up to the MyOldham newsletter here The 'first moorland fire of the season' has broken out on the hills above Saddleworth.
Firefighters spent two and a half hours on Tuesday afternoon tackling the blaze near the village of Diggle on moorland which is 'well used by rare ground-nesting birds'.
For the first time, crews from Slaithwaite and Holmfirth fire stations in West Yorkshire used specialist equipment designed for tackling moor fires.
A spokesperson from Slaithwaite Fire Station said: "The crew at Slaithwaite were called to the first moorland fire of the season in Marsden, up near Black Moss reservoir this afternoon at 3.45pm. "Additional appliances came from Holmfirth to support. "The
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