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.
‘Pride is ours and we want to make it that way again': The protesters aiming to reclaim the roots of Manchester Pride
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe weekly email brings you all the latest news from the LGBTQ+ community plus exclusive interviews direct to your inbox The first ever gay Pride parade took place in the streets of New York on June 28, 1970.
The event coincided with the one year anniversary of the Stonewall riots - a police raid on the Stonewall Inn gay bar - and would ultimately go on to spur a worldwide movement and an ongoing fight for LGBTQ+ equality.
Fifteen years after the New York parade, Manchester hosted it’s very first Pride event - with bars raising money for local organisations and donating soft furnishings to hospital wards where patients were being treated for HIV and AIDS. Read more: Pensioners left stranded on M6 'for 12 hours' until 2am after breaking
Read more on manchestereveningnews.co.uk