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 one couple transformed their Cotswolds cottage into a Christmas haven
telegraph.co.ukLuke Edward Hall on the patchwork of classical influences and playfulness that make up his own festive style. ‘I’m inspired by historical motifs, mixing periods and aesthetics.’A certain romantic escapism blurs the cultivated edges of the Cotswolds cottage he shares with his fiancé, the interior designer Duncan Campbell, and their whippet, Merlin.
Its interiors, since they moved in last summer, have been shaped by their shared love of a wide range of genres, periods and fashions. ‘I first saw the cottage when I whizzed up the A40 on a grey day and I remember thinking it had amazing potential,’ recalls Duncan. ‘No neighbours, beautiful views.
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