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.ukA 'kind and gentle' man who attacked his 81-year-old mum after unwittingly using 'laced' cannabis and a dad snared by pedophile hunters when he tried to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex were just two of the criminals locked up this week as court cases concluded across Greater Manchester.
Jail terms were also handed out to two teenagers who launched three horrific, unprovoked attacks on a dad as he walked to work and a couple who ran a drug racket across south Manchester and Bolton.
Those put behind bars over the past seven days also include three conmen who sold dodgy fish 'unfit for human consumption' out of the back of a van and a gang who tracked down a woman fleeing from an arranged marriage.
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