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.
Killer caught by police with two suitcases containing the remains of her friend jailed for life
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A woman who murdered her friend before dismembering her body and concealing it in two suitcases has been jailed for life.
Gareeca Gordon, 28, stabbed Phoenix Netts to death in their Birmingham accommodation in April last year after she rejected her sexual advances, a court heard.
Ms Netts could have survived the four stab wounds to her chest and torso but her killer refused to call the emergency services, leaving her to die for up to 12 hours while searching the internet for articles on 'how to fix a punctured lung'.
The court heard how Gordon used a circular saw, which she purchased on Gumtree, to dismember the body of Ms Netts before placing it
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