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.
Solway Sharks juniors selected for world's most prestigious minor hockey tournament
dailyrecord.co.ukTwo Solway Shark youngsters have been selected to play at the world’s most prestigious junior hockey tournament in Canada. For the first time in six decades, girls’ teams from around the world have been invited to participate in the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament.
Mollie Walker, 12, and Maisie Simpson, 12, will represent Dumfries with the England National U13 Team. Both girls are feeling “grateful” for a lifetime experience.
Mollie who played hockey for almost seven years said: “I am not nervous as I was before when I didn’t know the team. It is made up of girls from all over the UK and we have never met some of them but the coaches have helped us get to know each other.
I am excited about meeting even more new people and teams from around the world and playing in the NHL size stadium. “I think we have a good chance to beat a few teams and hope we win the tournament for the girls’.” Maisie has been playing for five years and is feeling “special” to play in the first girls tournament.
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