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.
Ex-detective from Channel 4 show Hunted labels Nicola Bulley police 'utterly ludicrous'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe decision to release intimate personal details about missing mum Nicola Bulley has been heavily criticised by a former senior detective.
Peter Bleksley, who is familiar to viewers of Channel 4 show Hunted, described the move by Lancashire Police as "utterly ludicrous".
The force held a press conference on Wednesday intended to calm mounting speculation about the mother-of-two who vanished in St Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire on January 27.
They told the media that the 45-year-old was classified as "high risk" because of "a number of specific vulnerabilities". But the briefing only served to inflame the speculation.
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