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.
Taylor Swift’s dad escapes charges over alleged assault with paparazzi
nme.comTaylor Swift’s father has escaped charges after being accused of assaulting a paparazzo.The incident allegedly took place in Sydney on February 27, and police began investigating Taylor’s father Scott Kingsley Swift after a complaint was made by paparazzo Ben McDonald regarding an alleged assault.According to McDonald, he was “just out on the job chasing Taylor” as she “got off a super-yacht at Neutral Bay and walked up the wharf with an umbrella over her head”.
He added that she had “a couple of security [guards] around her,” and that they “sort of pushed us around with the umbrellas.”He continued, alleging that Swift’s “dad decided to add to the mix and throw a punch in”, leaving him sore but uninjured. “It was a shock… There was no need for it, the security had it under control,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald. “I’ll leave it in the police’s hands now.”At the time, a spokeswoman for the pop icon told Daily Mail Australia the photographers were being ‘aggressive’, although McDonald later refuted the claims as “utter rubbish”.Now, it has been confirmed that following the investigation into the alleged incident – carried out by North Shore Police Command – no further action has been taken.Swift was in the Australian city as part of her ongoing ‘Eras’ world tour – which has been confirmed as being the first tour to gross over $1billion.She wrapped up the Australian leg of her ‘Eras’ tour in Sydney on February 26, and the shows saw her perform in Melbourne as well, where she played to her largest audience ever.During the performance at Accor Stadium in Sydney, she was joined by special guest Sabrina Carpenter for a mash-up of ‘White Horse’ and ‘Coney Island’.Since then, she has performed six shows at Singapore’s.
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