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.
House wrecked after boy smashed stolen £50k Mercedes through its front wall
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThis was the devastating scene of wreckage after a 16-year-old boy ploughed a stolen Mercedes into the front of a family home during a police chase in Salford.
The home was so badly damaged during the crash on December 18 last year the family had to move out as it was declared unsafe, police say.
The £50,000 car had been stolen from Cadishead earlier that day, before the teen, who cannot be named, lost control while being pursued by police. READ MORE: "Kennie was our cheeky chappy with baby blue eyes": Family pay tribute to 16-year-old fatally stabbed in Stretford Normally the family's two young children would have been eating breakfast in the room the Mercedes crashed into, but that day were ill so had stayed in bed.
On Friday the youth, from Salford, was sentenced at Manchester magistrates' court for dangerous driving, aggravated vehicle taking, driving without a licence and driving without insurance.
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