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 lottery winner’s charity probed over financial misconduct claims
dailyrecord.co.ukA children’s charity set up by a £4.5million lottery winner is being investigated over financial misconduct allegations. Former hairdresser Barry Chuwen set up The Teddy Bear Foundation with wife Jenny in 2004 after the couple had a stillborn baby at six months.
The organisation – which has a string of high-profile supporters including British Airways and Clydesdale Bank – claims to have spent £500,000 providing special needs kids with Euro Disney trips, riding lessons and massage sessions.But charity watchdog OSCR is investigating serious concern surrounding both “governance and financial controls”.The probe was launched last year into payments made by the charity to a company connected to one of its trustees.OSCR has now stepped in to ensure property owned by The Teddy Bear Foundation cannot be sold.The regulator said: “We are concerned that there has been misconduct in the administration of the charity and consider it necessary and desirable to take protective action in respect of the charity’s property.“We have therefore issued a formal direction to the charity’s bank preventing it from parting with any property of the charity without OSCR’s consent.”Chuwen – who lives in a £1.5million mansion in Glasgow’s plush Whitecraigs – scooped £4.5million when his numbers came up in September 1997, when he was just 27.Despite the massive windfall, he continued to work at his salon next to Glasgow’s Queen Street station for 15 months before setting up a property company.His firm Jasper Wishaw and its subsidiaries bought up commercial properties to rent out, including Glasgow’s Italian Centre and the Versace shop.But the £30million portfolio went bust in 2013 after the Bank of Scotland, who had provided for most of the assets,
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