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 'secret sauce' made in Manchester that could change an industry - and the planet
manchestereveningnews.co.ukOutside it was a typically grey, drizzly day in October in Manchester. But inside Mayfield Depot, history was being made. In scenes reminiscent of a James Bond film, the cavernous structure was dramatically lit and workers in bright orange overalls and hard hats scurried back and forth in hushed anticipation.
At 10am the procedure began, a concrete mixer churning out the familiar, thick substance that is the most-used building material in the world.
Fourteen truck loads was poured over a vaulted structure to create a suspended concrete slab that will be used, first as an indoor ice rink, and later a roller disco at Mayfield.
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