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.
Man jailed after police find more than £1k-worth of crack... between his buttocks
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA Manchester man was found with more £1,000 worth of crack cocaine hidden in an intimate place. Kevin Codner was stopped by police after he was seen outside homes of two known drug-dealers.
Officers later found a golf ball-sized clingfilm wrap of crack cocaine between his buttocks. READ MORE: 'Get off my lane!': Farmer hurls billhook at cyclist who followed him home after road rage row The 21-year-old pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to possessing the drug with intent to supply.
Codner, of Daisy Bank Road, Longsight, was jailed for two-and-a-half years. Prosecutor Graeme Simpson said Codner was spotted by a police officer on patrol acting suspiciously outside an off-licence in Rugby, Warwickshire, on October 22 last year.
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