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.
Bank holiday baking: the only three cake recipes you'll ever need
telegraph.co.ukNewness is a drug. We love new flavours, new recipes, the unusual, the unfamiliar. But most of us also have a core repertoire of dishes that are as much a part of us as the way we dress.
We make them because we love eating them but also because we could turn them out in our sleep. I do make cakes that require work (layers of genoise, stripes of mousse-like filling, a glossy mirror of glaze on top) but these are project cakes, they’re not what I slide into the oven on a weekend afternoon.
I have what I think of as a ‘capsule wardrobe’ of cakes, favourites that can be subtly changed or accessorised. Odette Williams, a New York-based bakeware designer who adores cake, has an even larger core repertoire, one that she turned into a book, Simple
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