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.
Warning almost EVERY job sector could soon be on strike as UK faces 'worst ever crisis'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukStrike action could take place in almost every job sector in the coming months as the nation continues to be gripped by the cost of living crisis, a leading academic has warned.
Mass walk-outs have already been staged by railway workers, bus drivers, postal workers and barristers in Greater Manchester and the rest of the country, in disputes over pay and working conditions - with more unions understood to be balloting workers.
As the UK inflation rate soared to 9.4pc this week, workers are continuing to vote overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action, as unions argue pay offers are failing to offset the cost of living. READ MORE:'I've been a Northern train guard for nearly 30 years - here's why I'm striking' And as the energy price cap is set to rise by another £800 in October, a psychology professor at the University of Manchester predicts that thousands more workers in both the public and private sector will ballot for strike action in the coming weeks and months.
Sir Cary Cooper, a professor of organisational psychology, has warned the current situation - branded by many as the summer of discontent - is likely to cause more disruption than the widespread industrial action seen during the 1970s.
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