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.
Paisley para table tennis star Martin Perry bags silver at French Open
dailyrecord.co.ukMartin Perry backed up a brace of bronze medals from his trip to Spain with an impressive silver haul in France. The Paisley para table tennis star improved on his recent showing at the Costa Brava Spanish Open with a single’s silver at the French Para Open in Saint Quentin en Yvelines this week, as well as bagging another double’s bronze.
His run to the single’s final included an enjoyable 3-1 win over Kazuki Shichino, the Japanese player who beat Perry in their crucial World Qualification Tournament quarter-final which crushed his hopes of making the Tokyo Paralympics.Unfortunately for Perry he couldn’t topple Esteban Herrault in the gold decider, with the Frenchman edging past the Scot, just as he did in the semi-finals of the Spanish
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