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.
'No looking for parking, never stuck in traffic': Why I take baby about by bike
manchestereveningnews.co.ukPetrol prices have rocketed and running and maintaining a car is more expensive than ever before - but one savvy dad is beating the system by ferrying two of his four children around on his long tail cargo bike.
The bike can carry one adult and two children and dad-of-four Sam Easterby-Smith from Withington is saving a packet by leaving the car at home and using his other set of wheels instead.
Software engineer Sam, who has two young children Poppy, one, and Aline, six and two teenagers Laurel, 15 and Cassie, 13, says transporting his younger children around in the car is not only cheaper - it is environmentally friendly too.
Sam says: "It's my substitute Range Rover. To some extent it is about saving money and I do have a car. I do the vast amount of my journeys by bike - it's more environmentally sound and you don't have to sit in queues of traffic." The school run is done by bike and stay at home dad Sam says he is not the only one dropping the kids off that way, instead of using the family car. "There is at least one other family on my school run who do it too, " he says. "When you do it yourself, you notice if other people do as well." READ MORE: Warning Morrisons petrol prices could skyrocket at dozens of forecourts "My car mostly sits parked up on the road - to the extent that it occasionally has needed jump starting due to lack of use.
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