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.
'Salman Abedi was just an unpleasant and idle lout' - expert says Arena bomber's conduct in education can't be linked to 'radicalised' behaviour
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSuicide bomber Salman Abedi was a 'problematic student', but his conduct at school, college and university 'could not obviously be linked' to 'radicalised' extremism, an expert told the Manchester Arena Inquiry.
The inquiry has heard none of Abedi's teachers and tutors at the five educational institutions he attended between 2007 and 2017 had any concerns he was displaying behaviour which could indicate radicalisation.
They said Abedi had been 'badly behaved' and 'rude' at times, and had committed theft and been violent, but nothing he did suggested he would go on to commit the atrocity in May 2017, which killed 22 and injured hundreds at the Arena.
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