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.
Bolton revealed as India Covid variant hotspot - as health chiefs escalate alert level
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletter A coronavirus strain first detected in India has been escalated to a “variant of concern”, Public Health England (PHE) has confirmed today.
Figures show cases of the variant have increased to 520 from 202 over the last week, and almost half of these cases are related to travel or contact with a traveller.
The cases are spread across the country, with the majority in two areas – the North West, predominately in Bolton, and London, PHE said.
The decision to reclassify the variant is based on evidence which suggests it is at least as transmissible as a strain known as the Kent variant, PHE said.
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