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.
Drug addict stabbed 'kind-hearted' dad to death while on bail for axe attack
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA drug addict has been found guilty of murdering a dad while on bail for a "vicious" axe attack. Richard Hand stabbed 37-year-old Yassar Moussa in the neck then dumped his naked body in a park near his home in Walthamstow, east London.
The Old Bailey heard how the drug addict and Islamic terror sympathiser murdered the father-of-one just 31 days after he was released on bail charged with attacking a friend with an axe. READ MORE: Pet dog found with fractured ribs after being hurled over fence by owner Following a trial, Hand was found guilty of murdering Mr Moussa, the attempted murder of his first victim Graeme Bennett, and having an offensive weapon.
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