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.
Rampaging masked thugs 'rush pub's door' and attack door staff after being denied entry
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the MyStockport newsletter to keep up with all the top stories 'Vicious' thugs in balaclavas attacked bouncers and smashed a window in a violent rampage outside a popular south Manchester pub.
Three people tried to 'rush the door' after being denied entry to The Levenshulme pub in Levenshulme village late on Saturday night staff said.
One member of the door staff was injured before a letterbox was ripped from a wall and hurled through the window. READ MORE: Locked up in July: Criminals jailed in Greater Manchester this month It sparked a big police response on the A6 Stockport Road in the suburb with officers still trying to trace the culprits.
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