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.
'Cruel' wife handed life sentence after pouring boiling water and sugar over sleeping husband
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDon't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox A 'cruel' wife who poured boiling water and sugar over her husband as he slept has been handed a life sentence.
Corinna Smith, 59, poured the 'vicious' mixture over her 81-year-old husband Michael Baines, leaving him with 36 per cent burns to his body.
He sadly died of his injuries just over a month later. The day before the attack, Smith, from Neston, in Cheshire, was 'angry' and 'upset' about a rumour circulating about her husband, police said.
The next day, on July 14 last year, she returned home and filled a bucket from her garden with boiling water and three kilograms of sugar.
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