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.
Inside the vast spaceship structure that's about to transform Manchester's arts and music scene
manchestereveningnews.co.uk"I think it's a pivotal and amazing time for Manchester to have a moment to look at what is great about it, and to have an opportunity for the people of the world to understand what's great about this city." The words of renowned composer Michael 'Mikey J' Asante MBE, whose work Free Your Mind , an immersive performance based on The Matrix, will officially open Manchester's new £186m Factory International arts centre next June.
Programmed and operated by the team behind the world-famous Manchester International Festival, the vast new building will create a "landmark cultural space" for the city at the edge of the Old Granada Studios.
The extraordinary spaceship-like structure, visible from Quay Street and Liverpool Road, sits on the banks of the River Irwell and represents the largest investment in a a national cultural project project since the opening of the Tate Modern in 2000.
At a media event on Thursday held at the Science and Industry Museum, organisers confirmed the official opening date and gave a taste of what to expect from the soon-to-open global arts, music and cultural destination.
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