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.
Scots crook jailed for Ponzi scam that saw millions plundered from pensions drafts in new lawyers
dailyrecord.co.ukGet the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter A crooked financial advisor serving time for plundering millions of pounds from peoples’s pensions and life savings has instructed new lawyers to represent him in a proceeds of crime action.
Alistair Greig, 67, was jailed in April 2020 for carrying out a Ponzi scam which sucked in dozens of individuals in the Aberdeen area to place their funds in “guaranteed” high interest accounts.
But he used the cash to fund his own lavish lifestyle with top of the range cars and no expense spared trips to see English premiership matches.
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