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.
Tenant showers with bucket of water in garden after losing power in £17k debt wrangle
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA tenant has been forced to shower with a bucket in his garden after his power was cut off in a £17,000 wrangle over energy bills.
The 36-year-old, who will be named only as Nick, claimed his gas and electricity had been disconnected, meaning he also could not cook and lived off mostly cold or pre-prepared food.
He said he had paid £500 a month in rent, which included bills, to letting agent Virtual Rooms since moving into a shared house in Edgbaston, Birmingham, last November.
But he said he stopped paying when power was cut off to the property on July 19. Nick told BirminghamLive that he had struggled to contact the company, which gives its location as in the city's Jewellery Quarter and a Birmingham phone number on its website.
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