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.
Fed-up family of nine living in "severe threat" in an overcrowded three-bed house
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA family of nine have spent the past two years living in a three-bedroom council home - and they're now speaking out about the lack of help for larger families.
David Payne, 49, and his wife Danielle, 34, from Godalming in Surrey have seven children. The family was warned by Waverley Borough Council's own environmental health officer last November that the home is "seriously overcrowded" and poses a severe threat to the family's health and safety.
The youngest child who is two years old is forced to sleep in the parent's bedroom with them while the oldest who is 16 sleeps in the living room downstairs.
Meanwhile, the other five children share the remaining two bedrooms. Read more: Couple assault bin man and chase him down street after he refuses to empty bin Mr Payne said: "We don’t get anywhere with the council, they don’t communicate with us.
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