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.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor claims she was raped at 17 by musician, 29, and left feeling ‘stupid’ and ‘ashamed’
thesun.co.ukSOPHIE Ellis-Bextor has claimed she was raped as a teenager by a 29-year-old musician. The Murder on the Dancefloor singer told him "no" and "I don't want to" - but lost her virginity to the guitarist after going to his flat.
Speaking out for the first time about what happened, the singer shares an extract from her new book with the Mail on Sunday that she wants her voice to be heard 25 years on from the harrowing incident.
After meeting at a gig, the unnamed musician asked A-level history student Sophie to go back to his flat to see his study books.
Describing what happened next, Sophie said: "Jim and I started kissing and before I knew it we were on his bed and he took off my knickers. "I heard myself saying ‘No’ and ‘I don’t want to’,.
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