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.
Golden mummies and a brand new gallery wing as the Manchester Museum re-opens after two years and £15m refurb
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe Manchester Museum opens its doors again for the first time in nearly two years this weekend, complete with a brand new extension, new permanent galleries, golden mummies and its famous dinosaurs.
The museum, part of Manchester University, closed for the huge £15 million refurbishment - and the pandemic - in the summer of 2021.
Since then, it’s been transformed with a huge two storey wing being built to house the brand new South Asia and Chinese Heritage Galleries, which are co-curated by the British Museum.
Of course, the established attractions remain too, including the historic Fossils Gallery, complete with a new exhibit - a 100 million-year-old tenontosauraus, called April, and Stan the tyrannosaurus rex.
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