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.
'I know a lot of people who have died prematurely' - the Greater Manchester streets where women's life expectancy is lower than in Colombia
manchestereveningnews.co.ukOn a grey morning in Oldham town centre, Susan takes a quick cigarette break after shopping for her sister who is coming out of hospital.
She's only 58-years-old but will now require 24-hour care. The mum is also desperately trying to support her youngest son, who lost his girlfriend last year.
She was only in her 30s. Now Susan is having to help her son find a new place to live, as he can scarcely afford the £500 rent he and his partner had taken on together.
According to a new report, women like Susan face a lower life expectancy than women in Colombia, Latvia and Hungary. Figures reveal that life expectancy for women living in the poorest 10 per cent of areas in England - such as parts of Oldham - is lower than in any other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) country, except Mexico. READ MORE:The streets where the cost of living crisis has left everyone 'skint' According to the report by the Health Foundation, women like Susan can expect to live on average 78.7 years - significantly below the average of 83.2 years for the whole of England.
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