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.
'If I hadn't let go we would have both drowned. I had to save myself': Inquest hears how girl 'pushed' Shukri Abdi as they swam in the river
manchestereveningnews.co.ukdied after going into the river in Bury during a heatwave in June 2019. On Wednesday an inquest into her death heard evidence from the girl who was with her in the water in the moments before she drowned.For legal reasons she is referred to as Child One.The inquest was shown a recording of a police interview with Child One which took place on June 28 last year, the day after Shukri’s death.In it Child One described how she and Shukri, a Kenyan-born Somalian refugee who couldn't swim, entered the water together, initially holding hands.Child One said that as she floated in the water on her stomach Shukri grabbed hold of her legs.She said: "She was holding me, she was pulling my legs, I pushed her.
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