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.
The small plastic tree with a single strand of tinsel went up early as Rebeka Stewart tried to cheer up her three little girls in lockdown.
But it stands in the corner of the room as a stark reminder of how hard Christmas will be this year for a family already struggling before Covid.
Rebeka, 28, says: “Last year we had a pack of four meats from Aldi and the girls got clothes as well as their main presents. “This year we have nothing, Christmas dinner will be sausages and mash. "There’s no point complaining, this thing has hit everyone, but when you’re already struggling it hits you that bit harder.” Living in an area of Middlesbrough where 76% of children are growing up in poverty, the highest rate in the UK, Rebeka will shower
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