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.
Two teenage girls given lifelong anonymity after murdering vulnerable alcoholic in her own home
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletterTwo teenage killers who murdered a vulnerable alcoholic in her own home have been granted lifelong anonymity.
A High Court ruling published today states that their identities will be kept secret for life. The girls were aged 13 and 14 when they killed 39-year-old Angela Wrightson, putting her through a five-hour ordeal and taking selfies for Snapchat, in 2014.Ms Wrightson, an alcoholic known locally as Alco Ange who would let schoolchildren drink in her living room, was hit with a shovel, a TV, a coffee table and a stick studded with screws.
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