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.
Family's desperate campaign to stop child sex offender being buried with brother
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe family of a man who died more than 20 years ago is desperately campaigning for a convicted sex offender not to be buried in the grave next to him.
Stephen Lee Wilcock, from Blackburn, was 18 when he passed away suddenly in 1998. His sister Bethany Jackson is now campaigning for the rights of his burial spot 24 years on, LancsLive reports.
It comes after Stephen's father, Kevin Harrison, was convicted of a child sex offence against a boy and jailed last month. Harrison currently owns the plot next to his son Stephen and wishes to be buried there. READ MORE: The Christmas mum couldn't remember, the woman we'll never forget When Stephen died, their mother and family could not afford to pay for funeral costs.
At the time, Harrison offered to cover the costs and bought the deeds to Stephen's plot at Pleasington Cemetery in Blackburn.
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