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.
'It's time to be beautiful and bad again': Madonna's favourite photographer on his sexy new gin label
telegraph.co.ukSeventy One Gin, an amber coloured spirit in a bottle so perfume-like, it was hard to know whether to spritz it or sip it when it launched last night at Chiltern Firehouse.
It is individually distilled using botanicals including Queen of the Night – an extraordinary cactus that blooms in the Mexican desert for 24 hours only – and aged for 71 nights (hence the name) in three types of oak cask.
Only available in Britain, where Alas now lives, it costs £140 a bottle. It is also the project that has seen Turkish-born Alas and his business partner Tasso Ferreira through lockdown – one that has turned into an almost obsession for both men.
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