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.
Nearly £500,000 of Lottery cash to be split among Dumfries and Galloway groups
dailyrecord.co.ukAlmost half a million pounds is to be shared among 22 organisations across the region who have hit the National Lottery jackpot.
Fifteen awards in Dumfriesshire ranged from £84,000 for Upper Nithsdale Arts and Crafts Community Initiative’s social isolation tackling and health and wellbeing improvement programme to £2,100 for the Thornhill After School Lego Club.
The popular club was set up last year by local mum Somar Fergusson and gives children aged from five to 12 the chance to get creative with Lego.
A spokesperson for the club said: “We will be using the money to offer a series of free workshops all about Lego for children in the local area, join the official Lego Leagues programme, and purchase new equipment for the children to enjoy.” The User and Carer Involvement Group will allocate the £39,235 it is receiving to provide cost of living related support to isolated women with learning disabilities and expand their Hen’s Den in Dumfries to include new dens in Annandale and Eskdale, and the rest of the region.
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