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.
Locked Up: Our round up of criminals jailed in Greater Manchester this week
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter More criminals have been locked up this week as court cases conclude across Greater Manchester.
Those put behind bars over the past seven days include a drunk man who set fire to a house where a baby was sleeping and a drugs kingpin who had a lead role in a 'sophisticated' cocaine ring.
A well-respected businessman struggling to keep his barber shops afloat during the pandemic who took a 'deep dive' into the world of crime was also locked up.
Jail terms were also handed out to the killers of a promising boxer who was gunned down in the street and a man who killed his flatmate then claimed the fatal knife wounds had been self-inflicted.
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