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.
'His smile lit up the room': Heartbroken family pay tribute to Salford man killed in crush at Jewish festival in Israel
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city The heartbroken family of a young man from Salford killed in a crush at a Jewish festival in Israel say they accept his death 'without question or bitterness - despite our grief and pain'.
Moshe Bergman, 22, died in a stampede which left 45 dead and more than 150 injured at the Lag B'Omer festival, near Mount Meron in northern Israel, on Friday He was buried at a funeral in Jerusalem in the early hours of Sunday.
His grieving family have flown from their home in Kersal to the Israeli capital to sit Shiva with his wife Shira. Mr Bergman was among those killed when a passageway became overcrowded.
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