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.
From Salford schoolboy to Neo-Nazi next door - Oliver Bel and the rising threat of far right extremism
manchestereveningnews.co.ukWearing a tweed jacket, rimmed glasses and carrying a briefcase, it looked as though Oliver Bel was on his way to a university lecture rather than a crown court.
But it was at one of the country's most prestigious centres of learning - Cambridge University - that the dark, hate filled and dangerous world in which Bel had secretly immersed himself was first revealed to police.
In an extraordinary fall from grace, Bel, 24, from Salford, is now beginning a jail sentence for a terrorism offence. And, amid fears that the coronavirus pandemic is helping to create a 'perfect storm' for radicalisation, especially among young people, a senior counter terrorism officer has told the M.E.N.
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