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.ukMore criminals have been locked up this week as court cases conclude across Greater Manchester. Jail terms were handed out to the Audi drivers whose dangerous racing killed a former Bolton mayoress and a woman who stabbed her boyfriend in the back while he cooked.
Those put behind bars over the past seven days also include a man who tried to meet up with underage girls who turned out to be undercover cops, an international drugs boss who enjoyed an extraordinary lavish lifestyle funded by crime and four people involved in the killing of a Wigan man in a failed attempt to take his £11,000 watch.
Prison sentences are handed out to the worst offenders each week and Manchester Evening News reporters are in court to cover the most serious
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