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.
"Kennie was our cheeky chappy with baby blue eyes": Family pay tribute to 16-year-old fatally stabbed in Stretford
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe family of a 16-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed in Stretford at the weekend have paid tribute to their 'cheeky chappy'.
Officers were called just before 7pm on Saturday (January 22) to a report of a 16-year-old boy with serious injuries on Thirlmere Avenue in Stretford.
Tragically, 16-year-old Kennie Carter suffered a fatal stab wound to the chest and detectives from our Major Incident Team have so far questioned eight suspects, spoken to a number of witnesses and are continuing to make extensive forensic and CCTV enquiries at pace. READ MORE: Safeguarding services were warned tragic tot was at risk six months before his death Kennie's family appealed for the community to come forward with information and said 'young lives like Kennie's are being lost far too often'.
They said: "Kennie was our youngest, our baby, our cheeky chappy with baby blue eyes. His death has left a massive hole in our lives and our family has been destroyed.
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