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.
Some of Greater Manchester's most inspiring women, as nominated by you
manchestereveningnews.co.ukdirect to your inboxToday marks International Women's Day, a chance to celebrate, to reflect, and to honour the achievements of women past and present.Every year on March 8, IWD provides an opportunity to shout about how far women's rights have come while campaigning - loudly and proudly - for how far we still have to go.Society has made powerful changes, from the right to vote to the right for women to have our own mortgages.But in recent years, the #MeToo movement and the ongoing battle surrounding the gender pay gap shows that inequality remains rife.While IWD is a day for campaigning, it's also a day for boosting up female achievement and recognising those who have made a real difference to our lives.It's not just the powerhouse women.
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