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.
Proposals to create new space for Oldham Coliseum theatre in listed former post office move forward
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTown hall chiefs have agreed to appoint a design team to create a new venue for the Oldham Coliseum in Grade Two listed buildings in the town centre.
At a cabinet meeting this week, leaders agreed to appoint an architect-led team which will develop the detailed plans for a new ‘flexible’ performance space in the town’s ‘cultural quarter’.
This will be based within a redeveloped at 84 Union Street, and aspires to be a ‘net-zero carbon enterprise’. The project is being primarily funded by £6.13m from the £24.4m cash windfall the council received from the government’s Towns Fund.
However the remainder of the costs is being provided by ‘council resources and match funding’, according to cabinet documents.
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