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.
Didsbury Mosque react after bereaved Manchester Arena families claim it 'failed to challenge extremist ideology'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDidsbury Mosque have responded to claims made by the bereaved families of the Manchester Arena attack that they 'failed to challenge extremist ideology.' Suicide bomber Salman Abedi killed 22 people when a bomb exploded in the foyer of the music venue following an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017.
He and his convicted brother, Hasham Abedi, attended the mosque, also known as Manchester Islamic Centre as youngsters. READ MORE: Manchester Arena Inquiry hears evidence from jailed Islamic State recruiter An inquiry into the atrocity heard this week that Salman Abedi flashed an Imam a 'hateful look' after he gave a sermon speaking out against terrorism and Islamic extremism at the mosque.
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