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.
'It might only be 11C, but festival season in Manchester has well and truly started'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukWe're really in the thick of it now, aren't we? Venues are well and truly in the first of their two annual three-month gigging seasons, making hay while the sun shines.
Nights have started getting shorter, an indication that summer - and festival season - is just around the corner. And it looks like that festival season isn't around the corner - it's here.
We've already had 6Music Festival, and now Fair Play, spread across several Northern Quarter sites, kicks off April, before Sounds from the Other City rounds it off around Chapel Street in Salford. READ MORE: “There's no other place in the world like it”: DMA’s discuss new album and their love for Manchester In between that, we've got 28 days packed full of musical goodness.
Singer songwriters are jetting in from the US to play to Mancs, and we have modern-day indie heroes coming in from even further afield - Australia.
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