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.
Dad prowling streets at 3am picked up 'distressed' girl looking for a taxi then sexually attacked her
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDon't miss a thing that's happening in and around Bury by signing up to the free MyBury newsletter A man sexually assaulted a teenage girl after picking her up in his car and buying her a bottle of vodka.
Ali Rauf, 40, swooped on the drunken 17-year-old victim as she and a friend were trying to get a taxi in the early hours of the morning.
After luring the girls in with the promise of more alcohol, he drove them to his home where he forced himself on one of them as she sat on the toilet.
At Minshull Street Crown Court today, Rauf, of Bury, was jailed for four years and three weeks. The court heard Rauf was alone in his car when he spotted the two girls in Walmersley Road, Bury, at 3am.
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