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.
Knife-wielding thug left his former partner terrified by turning up at her workplace
dailyrecord.co.ukA knife -wielding thug left his former partner terrified by turning up at her place of work and threatening to stab her to death.
Brogan Wright, 24, caused extensive fear and damage after going to the shop where his ex worked in a rage after their relationship broke down.Newcastle Crown Court heard how he had issued threats before turning up at the Sunderland store carrying a blade, Chronicle Live reports.Prosecutor, Helen Towers, said: "Shortly before entering he had called her to say he would punch her in the face, he would stab her to death and made references to stabbing another male."He threw items from the shelves in the shop and used a kitchen knife to slash and stab at some newspapers.
He then went behind the counter, causing her to scramble over the counter to escape."He took money from the till and she said she would have to pay it all back.
He threw it on the floor and at her." Wright, 24, of Rosalind Avenue, Ryhope, Sunderland, who has seven previous convictions, including for GBH, pleaded guilty to threatening a person with a bladed article and criminal damage and was sentenced to two years suspended for two years.
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