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.
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the MySalford newsletter to keep up with what's happening in and around the city Derek recalls standing in the middle of the 'vast expanse' of Salford Quays sometime in the early 1980s, soon after the Manchester Docks had closed. "Everything was demolished," he said. "There was nothing as far as the eye could see." Beside him stood his colleague Ben Wallsworth, a fellow councillor in Salford who convinced the town hall to buy the ship canal and the docklands for £1m. READ MORE: The deep divides hidden beneath Salford's £1bn boom - and what the city's 'sensible socialist' mayor plans to do about it The two men turned to each other and said: "Gosh, what have we done?" Speaking at his final council meeting before standing down
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