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.
Paul Sapsford obituary
msn.comMy partner, Paul Sapsford, who has died suddenly aged 58 of a heart attack, was a respected manager in television continuity.
He worked successively at the BBC, Channel 4 and latterly UKTV, involved with scheduling and presentation, and in communicating the channels’ identity through the voice links and branding used between programmes.
He got his break in television in 1989 when he joined the expanding BBC subtitling unit. There he nurtured a commitment to access and inclusion that he retained throughout his career.
Paul was based in White City in west London but he also worked for a time in BBC Glasgow, where his professionalism and friendly work style won him many new friends.
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