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.
Businessman strangled Thai go-go dancer and dumped naked body in river
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA businessman has been jailed for eight years after murdering a Thai sex worker by stuffing her naked body in a suitcase and chucking it in a river.
Shane Looker, 52, killed dancer Laxami Manochat in November, 2014 while on holiday. After the murder, Looker stayed in his holiday home for weeks before crossing the border to Malaysia, and fleeing to Spain until his arrest in 2017 as reported on StokeonTrentLive.
He was finally extradited back to Thailand last July following a hearing before the European Court of Human Rights. READ MORE: Ex-escort sells everything she owns to look after mistreated cats It followed assurances that Looker would not face the death penalty or be mistreated in Thailand.
Now Looker - who grew up in Windermere Road, Clayton - has been convicted of the murder and also ordered to pay Laxami's mother and daughter a total of £291,300 in compensation.
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