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.
How accountant who had £500k gambling debts and stole £50k from his employer is now helping other addicts
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter An accountant with £500,000 in gambling debts had his double life exposed when he was jailed for stealing £50,000 from his employer.
Now, David Bradford, 64, and his son have launched an app with the aim of preventing other addicts’ lives from being shattered.
Father-of-three David, who lives in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, was locked up for eight months after being found guilty of fraud in 2014, on his wife's birthday.
The family man had hid his criminal acts, and the court case, from his unsuspecting partner Denise, 69, who believed he was attending court as a witness in a trial.
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