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.
For all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletter Residents have shared their horror as they watched their neighbour being savagely mauled by a dog - causing him life-threatening injuries.
Police and paramedics rushed to Yewdale Gardens in Breightmet, Bolton, at around 1.20pm today, May 6, to reports that a man was being attacked by a dog.
An air ambulance was scrambled to the scene, along with a Bolton council Dog Enforcement Control Unit van. Emergency services discovered a 50-year-old man, who had suffered 'life-threatening injuries to his arm and face', according to Greater Manchester Police.
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