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.
'We asked Alessia to stay alive more' - Marc Skinner on Russo after Man Utd hat-trick
manchestereveningnews.co.ukManchester United secured their Women’s Super League top spot with a 5-1 win over Leicester City on Sunday afternoon. Alessia Russo opened the scoring at 15 minutes and netted her third just after the break to cancel out Remy Siesen’s consolation goal for the Foxes.
United’s Leah Galton and Lucia Garcia followed suit and got themselves on the scoresheet with fine finishes to seal the three points.
The hat-trick makes Russo the club's leading scorer so far this season with an eight-goal tally in 12 games and manager Marc Skinner praised the striker's performance and continual development: “One of the things we've asked Alessia to do is stay alive more when it comes to kind of pre-thinking to anticipate where the ball might go. “I think she's done an excellent job of that today [Sunday].
I think her third goal in particular, where everybody else is switched off and she's carried on and kind of finds the moment to finish.
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