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 survived a serial killer who abducted me at 15 and handcuffed me in his lair"
mirror.co.ukFrom the moment a stranger pressed a handgun to her neck, Kara Robinson Chamberlain began outsmarting her captor and planning her dramatic escape.
Only 15, she had no idea the man forcing her into the back of a car was a serial killer and rapist who had already murdered three girls.
But she knew the only way to stay alive was to obey the kidnapper's demands and fool him into thinking she wouldn't fight back so that he would lower his guard.
Now 34, Kara has told the chilling story of how she miraculously survived a sick child predator who shackled her to his bed and held her captive for 18 hours while his wife was at Disney World with his mother. Got a story?
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