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.
Kurt Westergaard dead: Cartoonist whose Prophet Muhammad drawing sparked outrage dies
dailystar.co.ukDaily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A cartoonist who drew the Prophet Muhammed which later sparked outrage has died, aged 86.Kurt Westergaard's depiction of the Prophet angered those in the Muslim world.His family have said he died following a long illness, reports Berlingske newspaper.Westergaard was a cartoonist for the conservative Jyllands-Poston newspaper from the early 1980s.He became world famous in 2005 for his controversial depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in the newspaper.His cartoon, which showed a turban bomb, was one of 12 pictures published by the paper to make a point around self-censorship and criticism of Islam.Depictions of the Prophet Muhammad are offensive to some Muslims and regarded as taboo in.
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