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's Yorkshire and they've taken it away': The Greater Manchester village whose residents still believe it's in another county
manchestereveningnews.co.ukToday, thousands of people will take to the streets of several Greater Manchester villages to celebrate Yorkshire. Almost half a century on from Saddleworth being separated from the rest of the White Rose county, it remains a controversial subject here.
Historically part of the former West Riding of Yorkshire, the collection of villages and hamlets became part of Oldham and Greater Manchester under the local government overhaul of 1974.
Some still refuse to accept the decision which is why, each year, villagers take to the streets to celebrate Yorkshire Day. Held across the parish on the Sunday nearest to August 1, the event is a celebration of Yorkshire culture and history.
Proud Yorkshireman Mark Mothersdale is one of those celebrating in the picturesque Saddleworth village of Uppermill this weekend. READ MORE: Does Saddleworth yearn to be part of Yorkshire almost 50 years after controversial split? "Saddleworth is Yorkshire," he insisted. "It always has been. "A lot of people round here feel the same way.
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