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.
Huge crowds turn up to greet giant refugee puppet Little Amal in Rochdale
manchestereveningnews.co.ukRochdale town centre was completely packed out to welcome the astonishing Little Amal puppet, as she made her penultimate stop on an epic 8,000km journey.
Amal is a three-and-a-half metre puppet in the image of a nine-year-old refugee girl, searching for her lost mother. She was created as a public art projected produced for Good Chance in association with Handspring Puppet Company - famous for creating the horse puppets in War Horse. READ MORE : Best photos as hundreds brave weather to welcome giant refugee puppet Little Amal to Wigan Amal initially set off from the Syrian border in Turkey back in July.
Seven countries and more than 60 towns and cities later, the puppet found itself in the middle of Rochdale this afternoon (November 2).
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