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 see myself as a victim': Terror twins who fled Manchester for Syria say they don't believe in ISIS anymore as they are held in detention centre
manchestereveningnews.co.ukZahra and Salma Halane sparked a counter-terror probe after they fled Manchester for Syria at the age of 16 in 2014. The twins disappeared from the family home and flew out to Turkey before they crossed the border into the war-torn country.It led to the North West Counter Terrorism Unit (NWCTU) investigating their reason for travel and whether they were assisted.The Muslim youngsters, said to be "deeply religious", ignored their Somalian family's pleas for them to come home and told them they have no intention of returning.It is thought they went on to become "jihadi brides" as they married fighters from so-called Islamic State (IS) and were later widowed, while elder brother Ahmed Halane was said to have links to various terror groups.On.
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