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.
Man living in Glasgow on trial for murder of shotgun victim blasted off quad bike
dailyrecord.co.ukGlasgow is on trial after a murder victim was blasted off a quadbike by a shotgun. Abdul Rahman Abubaker was fatally shot in Birmingham just before 11pm on May 15, 2018, following a celebration to mark the start of Ramadan.
The 24-year-old's friends quickly picked him up and put in the back of a car and managed to intercept an ambulance. However, despite the efforts of surgeons, Mr Abubaker could not be saved and he died at hospital in the early hours of the following morning, Birmingham Live reports.
Earlier today, five men, one of whom is Shire Elmi, aged 23, who lives in Glasgow, went on trial for his murder at Birmingham Crown Court.
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