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.
Eyewitness tells of horrific scene as woman suffers severe burns and dies before murder investigation launched
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the free MyBury newsletter to get the best stories direct to your inbox A traumatised eyewitness has described how screams rang out on a quiet residential street as she and neighbours tried to save the life of a woman who was on fire.
Shaista Farzeen, 33, who was one of the first on the scene in in East Street, Bury, says the nightmarish images have been forever imprinted into her memory.
Emergency services were called to the residential road at around 7.30pm on Friday evening. They discovered a 31-year-old woman who had suffered 'severe' burns, according to Greater Manchester Police.
She was taken to hospital but, despite emergency staff's best efforts, died a short time later. READ MORE: Murder investigation launched after
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