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.
'A remorseless' teenager who brutally murdered a dad-to-be in the street and a perverted primary school deputy headteacher and her rapist boyfriend were just some of the offenders jailed in our region over the last week - just in time for Christmas.
A drugged-up thug who subjected a brave mum to two years of hell inside his flat will also be eating Christmas dinner behind bars.
An ex-firefighter who plied two women with alcohol and drugs before raping them and members of a country lines gang who flooded the streets of Wigan with heroin and crack cocaine were also handed jail terms for their crimes.
Prison sentences are handed out to the worst offenders each week and Manchester Evening News reporters are in court to cover the most serious
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