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 tiny Salford ice cream parlour rated top on TripAdvisor
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city Tucked away at the end of an unassuming parade of shops in Salford is a tiny ice cream parlour that is big on charm, and where punters queue down the road to savour the homemade gelato.
Named Taste IT after its Italian owners, husband and wife duo Simona and Gianfranco Fattore are working flat-out creating traditional artisan gelato ice cream and hand-stretched pizzas six nights a week at their Blackfriars Road shop.
It opens on weekdays from 5pm to 10pm and on weekends from 3pm - 10pm - but demand is so high they sometimes sell out within hours of opening.
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