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.
Late Late viewers praise businessman’s ‘grateful gentleman’ reaction to €15K boost
evoke.ieLate Late Show viewers have praised an Irish business founder as a ‘genuinely grateful gentleman’ after his emotional reaction to receiving a €15,000 boost for his company on the show last night.
Mike Devaney was a guest on the show alongside other Irish entrepreneurs to promote his business Heptagon Houses as part of the Taking Care Of Business special that selected people from all corners of the country to showcase their products.
When Ryan revealed to Mike that he would be walking away from the show with €15,000 and told him ‘you sum up exactly what the county needed which was to turn it around, pick yourself up as the song says and plough on,’ the Co Galway native became emotional.
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