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.
Greater Manchester's most disadvantaged children missing out on £10m school funding
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from school closures to ways to entertain the kids Schools are missing out on millions of pounds in funding given to help those entitled to free school meals.
Figures show an extra 7,213 children across Greater Manchester became eligible for free school meals between October and January - a reflection of the true impact of the pandemic on family incomes.
But because the pupil premium funding they are entitled to for 2021-22 was based on the October figures, it means schools across Greater Manchester are missing out on a staggering £10m.
Campaigners say the decision to base the PP funding on the autumn census, rather than this January, was 'sneaked out' in a 'cowardly'
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