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.
Teenager on trial for murder denies being 'wholly indifferent' to fate of victim as he cries in the dock
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA teenager on trial for murder denied being 'wholly indifferent' to the fate of the student he is accused of killing. Luke O'Connor, 19, who attended Manchester Metropolitan University, was stabbed to death on Wilmslow Road in Fallowfield.
Shiloh George Pottinger, also 19, has pleaded not guilty to murder and is standing trial at Manchester Crown Court. Jurors have heard that a row broke out between the pair after a friend of Mr O'Connor made a 'lighthearted' comment about Mr Pottinger's skateboard.
The prosecution alleges that Mr Pottinger, then a student at BIMM, a university offering music courses, reacted 'unpredictably and violently'.
During the ensuing fracas, Mr O'Connor was stabbed eight times. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community Mr Pottinger has admitted stabbing Mr O'Connor, but maintains he was acting in self-defence.
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