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 sold everything to move abroad and chase our dream - now Covid and Brexit threaten our future
manchestereveningnews.co.ukdirect to your inboxOn Boxing Day in 2004, Sam Thomas and her husband John were supposed to be in a beach hut on Koh Phi Phi - a beach hut that would soon be destroyed by the tsunami that killed a quarter of a million people.But weeks earlier, a chance conversation on a boat in Laos prompted the pair to cut their travels around south east Asia short and give a ski season a go.It meant that they were in a chalet in the Alps watching the devastating disaster unfold on TV, instead of before their very eyes.Sam says this fortunate twist of fate was the final push she needed to start following her heart, rather than her head.She packed in a successful decade-long career in recruitment in Manchester, sold all of her assets, and reinvested them in.
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