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.
Brutal gang puts £12m bounty on heads of kidnapped Christian missionaries
dailystar.co.ukgang, who seized the 16 Americans and one Canadian on Saturday, have made the demand for $17m (£12.3m) in what is just the latest in a wave of kidnappings as the impoverished Caribbean country descends into chaos.FBI agents have flown in to help the Haitian police secure the release of the missionaries, reports CNN, although they are not leading the negotiations and have not spoken to the gang directly.The victims include a baby and four other children, as well as five men and seven women.They were snatched after visiting an orphanage north-east of the capital Port-au-Prince.The group are part of Christian Aid Ministries, based in Ohio, which said the children were aged 15, 13, six, three and eight months.
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