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.
Chernobyl nuclear plant in 'new accident' fears as staff 'held at gunpoint' by Russian forces
dailyrecord.co.ukThere are growing fears at the Chernobyl nuclear plant amid reports that staff are being ‘held hostage’ by Russian soldiers.
Yuri Formichev, mayor of the nearby town of Slavutych, warned of a ‘complete catastrophe’ as food and fuel supplies come close to running out, the Mirror reports.
Russian forces have been in control of the plant, just north of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, since the early days of invasion.
There are reports that staff are continuing to work around the clock at gunpoint to maintain plant operations - which is said to be tiring workers physically and psychologically.
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