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: The criminals jailed in Greater Manchester last week
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA 'wannabe gangster' who took videos of himself posing with guns and machetes and an accountant who raped a woman at a party while she thought she was having sex with another man were just some of the offenders jailed in our region over the last week.
A thug who left an elderly man with terrible injuries following a 'horrific' carjacking was also put behind bars. Prison sentences are handed out to the worst offenders each week and Manchester Evening News reporters are in court to cover the most serious cases. Here are some of the criminals locked up in Greater Manchester since the start of the month. A drug dealer who bragged that Cheetham Hill was 'his area' launched a terrifying machete attack as terrified members of the public passed
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