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 left the UK and bought a £7k home Bulgaria on a whim - now we're mortgage-free'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA family from the UK are now living mortgage-free after selling their house and moving to Bulgaria. Laura Phoenix, 33, and her husband Anthony, 32, wanted to buy a rural home but couldn't afford the soaring house prices and cost of living in the UK.
Instead, the couple, along with their two daughters aged four and two, decided to move 1,941 miles 'on a whim' to live in Strazhitsa, Bulgaria.
They sold their two-bed property in County Durham for £85,000 and moved overseas in September 2023. The pair have since bought an abandoned three-bedroom property for just £7,000 - allowing them to live without a mortgage.
They have been renovating their new house ever since and say it is now their 'dream home'. READ MORE: Mum who was left living in campervan after 'devastating' event finds dream home Since moving, Laura says her family feel "free".
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