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.
Meet the Swedish government minister who dreams of life in Didsbury
manchestereveningnews.co.ukstraight to your inbox every day for freeWhile government officials may be expected to have pictures of political leaders or inspirational artwork in their place of work, Ardalan Shekarabi’s office in Stockholm is a little different.
On the wall above the Sweden’s Minister for Social Security’s desk hangs a Manchester United shirt. The Manchester United shirt not only represents his favourite football team, but also pays homage to his family history - and the place of his birth. “Both of my parents are Iranian but I was born in Manchester in 1978,” Mr Shekarabi, 42, tells the Manchester Evening News . “My mother moved to Manchester in 1977 to study English.
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