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.
May Day riots: Paris protesters tear-gassed as they attack police with missiles
mirror.co.ukProtesters pelted police with missiles and were sprayed with tear gas by riot officers as May Day marches in France descended into violence.
In Paris, at least 34 people were arrested amid running battles in the streets of the French capital before the delayed march, attended by about 25,000 demonstrators, had even started on Saturday.
Local officials in Lyon said 27 police officers were injured during violence there. Footage showed protesters launching glass bottles and other objects at officers clad in riot gear, including helmets and gas masks, and one spraying baton-wielding officers with a police tear gas cannister he had somehow obtained.
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