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.
Embarrassed mum 'asked to leave' ASDA while shopping for birthday cake
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA mum was left feeling mortified when ASDA staff "asked her to leave" the store while she was picking up a birthday cake with her young son.
Leanne Hampson, 39, and Alfie, four, set out on a shopping trip to the supermarket on the Greyhound Retail Park, in Chester, on Thursday morning (23 June).
The pair were approached by security staff after he made "loud, screeching noises" and Leanne, from Ellesmere Port, claims that the security guard told her to "either leave the store or control her child" following noise complaints from other customers.
Alfie has a glue ear - where the empty middle part of the ear canal fills up with fluid - and was last year made to wear a hearing aid as he is partially deaf.
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