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.
Tributes paid to beloved councillor and granddad-of-five who died unexpectedly after years helping his community
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor the latest news from in and around Wigan sign up to the MyWigan newsletter here Touching tributes have flooded in after the loss of a respected councillor who spent more than a decade helping his town.
Hundreds of people have taken to social media to pay their respects to George Fairhurst, who died aged 79 on Friday, April 16, his family has said.
Those commemorating his life say George was a beloved and hardworking councillor in Standish, Wigan, where he held a council seat for 15 years after retiring from a career building and working in the caravan industry.
In the wake of his death, his family discovered no less than three address books - where he wrote down the names of every person who needed help over his tenure as a councillor.
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