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.
Mum 'showing off' at the wheel killed three-year-old daughter and teenage cousin in head-on crash
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDon't miss out on the big stories from Manchester's courts with our weekly newsletter A Sunderland mum who was 'showing off' in an unroadworthy car killed her three-year-old daughter and teenage cousin when she caused a 'catastrophic' head-on crash.
Mary Stokes had five passengers in her Peugeot 206, which had been sold for scrap after failing its MOT, as she drove along the A1068 near Horden, County Durham, last September, a court heard.
The 23-year-old mum lost control of the car and crashed into an oncoming Mercedes van as she attempted to overtake another vehicle. READ MORE: Her three-year-old daughter Kelsey was thrown from the car and killed, while her 17-year-old cousin Shauna Stokes, who was in the back of the car and was thrown
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