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.
Heroic Showsec stewards helped seriously injured in aftermath of Manchester Arena bombing
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDon't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox The heroic and compassionate actions of Showsec stewards who did what they could to help the seriously injured in the immediate aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing have been revealed at the public inquiry into the atrocity.
They kept casualties conscious and spoke to them, stemmed blood loss, dressed wounds and carried the injured to medical care - as well as holding the hands of suffering victims caught up in the terror attack, the inquiry heard.
Their emotive testimonies were read out on the eve of the publication on Thursday of the inquiry's first official report - into the security arrangements in place at the Arena at the time.
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