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 former homeless man and his wife who set up an award-winning foodbank that has become a lifeline
manchestereveningnews.co.ukShakar Hussain knows first-hand what it's like to fall on hard times. Shakar, 49, originally from Pakistan, came to the UK aged 10.
He grew up in Cheetham Hill before his family settled in neighbouring Crumpsall. After leaving school he did a number of jobs including factory worker, private hire taxi driver and pharmacy dispenser.
But before that, a disagreement with his parents over the direction of his future career saw him leave the family home and become homeless. "I kind of put myself in that situation, but I had nowhere to go," he said. "In the old Piccadilly Gardens, I used to sleep on one of the benches there.
I used to kind of, just roam around the streets, and get help from where I could." READ MORE: Police decided to stop man and woman on M62 after becoming suspicious - it was a good call That was until he met his now-wife Shabnam. "We went high school together, she saw me, we recognised each other, and she started talking to me and asking 'what's wrong with you, what's happened?" he said. "And when I told her I was living homeless, she started supporting me.
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