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.
For the latest Trafford news sign up to the MyTrafford newsletter here Two police officers won't face disciplinary action over the Tasering of a dad on a petrol station forecourt in front of his screaming child.
Footage which captured the moment NHS worker Ziggy Desmond Mombeyarara was detained by police was shared widely online. He was taken down by a cop with a Taser stun gun on a petrol station forecourt on Chester Road in Stretford after being clocked doing 72mph in a 30mph zone on May 6 last year. READ MORE: Terrifying moment young mum scrambles to save toddler as thugs steal her car in Snapchat set-up Mombeyarara, 35, went on trial at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court in April and was handed an 18-month conditional discharge
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