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.
Houston police charge man with murder of Takeoff
completemusicupdate.comHouston police confirmed on Friday that a man has been arrested in connection to the death of Migos rapper Takeoff, who was shot dead during an incident at a bowling alley in the US city last month.According to a TMZ report at the time, several shots were fired during an altercation at a private party taking place at Houston’s 810 Billiards & Bowling in the early hours of 1 Nov, one of which fatally hit Takeoff, real name Kirshnik Khari Ball.He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two others were injured, although the rapper’s bandmate and uncle Quavo – who was with him at the time – was unharmed.At a press conference on Friday, Sergeant Michael Burrow, from the Houston Police Department’s homicide division, said that Takeoff was “an innocent bystander” to the shooting that resulted in his death.“The event was a private party, there was a lucrative dice game that went on at the event, there was an argument that happened afterwards outside the bowling alley, which led to the shooting”, he told reporters.He added: “I can tell you that Takeoff was not involved in playing the dice game, he was not involved in the argument that happened outside, he was not armed.
He was an innocent bystander”.The man accused of killing Takeoff is Patrick Xavier Clark. He was arrested last week and charged with murder.According to CNN, prosecutors have told the court that they consider Clark a flight risk because shortly after the shooting he allegedly applied for an expedited passport, which he received immediately before his arrest.
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