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 story of the Swedish identical twins who ran onto M6 - before one went on to kill innocent man
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing Identical twins said to be suffering from a form of 'shared psychosis' miraculously escaped death when they ran into oncoming traffic on the M6 after getting off their bus at a service station.
The shocking moment Swedes Sabina and Ursula Eriksson began diving into the road was captured by a BBC documentary crew filming for a new series of Motorway Cops.
Just days later, in a heartbreaking twist of events, one of the twins murdered an innocent man, who had taken pity on her and offered her a place to say.
The horrifying events of those few days in 2008 are the focus of a new BBC documentary, still in its early stages. Here, as reported by our sister title
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