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.
'Like a warzone' - Disabled Man City fans' nightmare Champions League final experience
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor most Manchester City supporters, Saturday, June 10 will be forever etched into their memories. Pep Guardiola orchestrated the elusive Champions League victory which the club craved as Rodri sent thousands of City supporters in Turkey, and back home in Manchester, to ecstasy.
Sadly, the experience for supporters who travelled to Istanbul was marred by factors outside of their control. Patrick Godfrey, 57, from Oldham was one of the fans who made the long trip across Europe to witness the historic evening as carer for his friend and wheelchair user Barry Foy.
Godfrey told MEN Sport the experience getting to and from the Ataturk Stadium is one he will never forget for all the wrong reasons.
He explained: "Barry is in his mid-70s and he has been in a wheelchair for the last couple of years after suffering a stroke.
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