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.
Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing Police have arrested a man on suspicion of the murder of a teenage girl who went missing on her way home from a nightclub in Suffolk more than 20 years ago.
In September 1999, 17-year-old Victoria Hall was found dead in a ditch, five days after she was last seen alive. Victoria, from Trimley St Mary, left home on the evening of September 18 for a night out with a friend at the Bandbox nightclub in Felixstowe.
The girls left the club at around 1am the following morning and parted ways at around 2.20am, yards from Victoria’s home. Her parents awoke in the morning to discover their daughter had not returned home and a missing persons inquiry was launched.
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