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.
A morning spent in the opening of the Levenshulme's first Warm Bank this winter
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAs the autumn sun spills through Levenshulme Old Library's lofty windows, an empty room is set aside to provide a comfort that is in short supply - warmth.
Advertised as the 'Keep Warm Club', the room is unassuming but somehow soothing, with wooden tables and plastic chairs laid out alongside a flask of hot water and a tray of teabags and biscuits.
Visitors here have no obligation, and are invited to help themselves to a hot drink, WiFi, and a warm place to sit, without having to speak to another soul.
The 'warm bank' is a scheme launched by the community arts centre just last week, as neighbourhood spaces try to think about how to best share their existing resources with the people around them, building manager Richard Hirst told the Manchester Evening News: "We have the heating on anyway when someone is in the building, so it made sense to invite people in here to use it." READ MORE: Manchester Christmas Lights switch-on event WON'T go ahead this year Richard tells us there hasn't been a huge amount of foot traffic yet - but he wanted the space to become available before the full reality of the harsh winter months kicks in.
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