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.
The couple who walked away from Manchester's rat race to run a campsite in the country
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up for our What's On newsletter to keep your finger on the pulse of an ever-changing Manchester Ali Harrison and her husband Darren left behind their high-flying careers in Manchester for a life in the country.
Now a decade later, they’re running a successful glamping and events site in Staffordshire. The business was set up seven years ago, which Ali jokingly says was a “terribly irresponsible thing to do” with hindsight.
Reflecting on how the pair walked away from their jobs to go it alone, she said: "I still wake up in the middle of the night worrying that this business is now supporting us, our mortgage and our two children but it seems to be going okay!" Ali, a former fashion buyer who would fly all around the world to exotic
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