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.
Dundee 'lights up the night' to round off weeks of anti-violence activism
dailyrecord.co.ukA vigil and flashmob ended more than two weeks of activism against violence towards women in Dundee - amid the most interest in the issue to date according to local experts.
The city's programme of events to mark the United Nations' 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence was rounded off with the display outside V&A Dundee, as other buildings across the city lit up in support of victims of violence.
Oor Fierce Girls was involved in the choreography and performance at the vigil, which also saw the names of women and girls killed by men read out.The group was established by local teenage girls to promote healthy attitudes towards women.Ann Hamilton, chair of the Dundee Violence Against Women Partnership, said: “The 16 Days
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