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.
'Manchester was my playground': What it was like to be the 'only kid' living in the city centre in the 80s
manchestereveningnews.co.ukHidden in the bowels of Manchester city centre, just outside Piccadilly station and overlooking the Rochdale Canal, is a concrete box on stilts.
It's an odd-looking building that is believed to date back to the 1960s, fitting in with the Brutalist architecture that was popular at the time.
For decades it was boarded up, its story left untold. And when the former Manchester Met University's Aytoun Street campus was earmarked for redevelopment it could have been demolished and lost forever.
Fortunately, developers Capital & Centric and HBD liked its quirkiness and decided to keep the building for use as a community space and to host pop-up food and drink operators.
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