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 our region since the start of the month
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter Four men involved in a robbery plot that left a man dead, and a man who was caught on CCTV attempting to rape a woman as she slept, were just some of the people jailed so far this month.
Other criminals put behind bars include a man who took cops on a 90mph chase before hiding from them up a tree and two men who used a container unit as a drugs factory.
Manchester Evening News reporters are in court to cover the most serious cases each week. Here are some of the criminals locked up in Greater Manchester since the start of the month A banned motorist hit speeds of 90mph, drove on the wrong side of the road, and overtook another vehicle after his
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