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 the Christmas Markets are welcome in Piccadilly Gardens, why aren't we?'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukOn one of the coldest nights of the year, a crowd of people huddle around a trestle table in Piccadilly Gardens. There's snow falling and the delicious smell of curries, stews and pies fills the air.
Amid the freezing conditions, men and women in big winter coats clutch plates of food with grateful hands. For many of them, this could be the only proper meal they eat all week.
Every Thursday evening, volunteers at Street Treats hand out dozens of free meals to Manchester's homeless. READ MORE: The groundbreaking deal that will change Greater Manchester forever For the last eight years, the service has been a lifeline to those forced to sleep rough on the city's streets.
But, last month, volunteers who run the street kitchen were told they could no longer do so from Piccadilly Gardens. Daryl Pollitt, who co-founded Street Treats, said a police officer warned her they would be 'booked' if they parked their van in the public city centre spot.
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