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.
Police investigated Salman Abedi after attack on girl at college years before Arena bomb, inquiry hears
manchestereveningnews.co.ukManchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi was investigated by police after he attacked a female Libyan pupil at college, but wasn't charged with any offence, the inquiry into the atrocity heard.
And at another college he went on to study at, his tutor saw a photo of him on his phone holding a gun, but he told her he was on holiday in Libya 'shooting' on 'family land' in Tripoli at the time, it was revealed.
The inquiry also heard Abedi dropped out of university and completely 'disengaged' just five months before he murdered 22 people and injured hundreds more in the Arena attack. READ MORE: The heartbreaking story of the beautiful little girl who went to a pop concert and never came home Abedi completed the first year of a business
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