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 drug-driver who was recorded speeding at up to 141mph shortly before killing two women in a horrific crash on a blind bend has been jailed for eight years.
Daniel Young killed Caroline Ball, 63, and 59-year-old Margaret Collier – who both died almost instantly, while overtaking a line of cars at about 90mph.
The incident happened just four months after getting his licence back following a six-month ban. Derby Crown Court was also told that the fatal crash came just weeks after the 25-year-old Amazon warehouse worker filmed a video named “How to Beat the Speed Cameras” - which showed him deliberately driving on the wrong side of the nearby B6052 at 80mph in a 30mph zone. READ MORE: Everything we know so far about the Clayton-le-Woods
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