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.
Ukrainian child denied shelter in Scotland but pet guinea pigs allowed in
dailyrecord.co.ukA 15-year-old Ukrainian refugee is being denied a visa to come to Scotland – but government officials are allowing her pet guinea pigs in.
Nataliia Zavhorodnia could be forced back to the warzone alone next month if the Home Office doesn’t approve her entry into the UK, where she’s been matched with a couple in Hamilton.
She fled the horrors of the Russian invasion of her homeland along with her aunt Millena Kornieieva – whose visa has been approved.
And in a bizarre twist of government red tape, officials from the Department of Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have given her guinea pigs Melon and Julienne the right to come to Scotland, while Nataliia’s case hangs in limbo.
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