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.
Starbucks support Hamilton Advertiser Toy Appeal with mammoth £5000 donation
dailyrecord.co.ukThe Advertiser's annual Christmas Toy Appeal received a last minute bumper bonus courtesy of Starbucks Hamilton.For the OCO.eu group who run the two franchises in the town, at Hamilton Palace Grounds and Hamilton Retail Park, have donated a whopping £5000 to help make Christmas extra special for the county's underprivileged children.Staff at Starbucks have long since supported the appeal - setting up donation stations and providing gift cards for the teenagers over the last few years - but this year they have gone above and beyond for South Lanarkshire's neediest families with such a mammoth donation.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
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