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.
Parents call for 'ridiculous' isolation rules to end as thousands more pupils sent home from schools
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from school closures to ways to entertain the kids Parents are calling for 'ridiculous' isolation rules to end as thousands more pupils have been sent home from schools.
With bubbles continuing to burst across the region, forcing pupils into remote learning once again, struggling families say they can't carry on dealing with repeated periods of isolation.
They say not only is it having a detrimental impact on children's education and mental well-being - leaving many youngsters in tears over missing school again - but parents themselves are finding it difficult to take the time off work.
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