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.
Five years jail for fiend at Dumfries Sheriff Court
dailyrecord.co.ukA sex offender who horrifically abused three young girls has been jailed for five years.Douglas Brown, 60, was sentenced at Dumfries Sheriff Court on Tuesday.The 60-year-old attacker’s appalling crimes prompted Sheriff Scott Pattison to impose the highest possible sentence.The sheriff praised the victims’ bravery in coming forward.One of them, now aged 26 and from Dumfries, welcomed the prison term and said Brown being off the street would give her “five years of peace”.She said: “I’m glad I don’t need to worry about bumping into him in the street or having him drive past me.“On the other hand, he’s been sentenced to five years while I’ve been left with a life sentence of having to deal with what he did.”Brown, of Palgowan Farm, Bargrennan,
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