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.
Oxford don whose mum married woman half her age and disinherited him wins £1m payout
mirror.co.ukAn Oxford don who sued after his elderly mum fell for a woman half her age and disinherited him has been handed a payout of almost £1m by a top judge.
Professor Christopher Gosden said his loving mum Dr Jean Weddell, a medical doctor, had vowed in 2003 to leave him her Edwardian London home.
But instead the director of the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford University was left with nothing when she died in 2013. That was after she fell in love with Wendy Cook, a barrister 37 years her junior, with whom Dr Weddell formed a civil partnership in 2007, at the age of 78.
By the time she died in 2013, she had made a new will, handing nothing to her son but leaving much of her estate to her new partner.
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