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.
Putin-hating Pussy Riot protestor slips out of Russia disguised as food delivery woman
dailystar.co.ukRussia because of a clever disguise. Masha Alyokhina, who has been thrown in jail several times this year for protesting against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, fled while under house arrest dressed as a food courier.Alyokhina had been threatened with her house arrest being turned into another 21-day sting in jail, but she decided to escape instead.According to the New York Times, she had been aware that Putin's police from Moscow were staking her house out, but she managed to leave with the new disguise and left her phone at home so she could not be tracked.She did not divulge how she managed to get the disguise, or how she left without Moscow police noticing.The 33-year-old was, however, turned away by border police in Belarus because she didn't have her passport – which had been confiscated by Russia.But her friend, Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson, managed to convince officials in Lithuania to grant her EU citizenship, and she was able to leave via the Belarus border to the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius.She said: “I was happy that I made it, because it was an unpredictable and big.“I still don’t understand completely what I’ve done.“A lot of magic happened last week - it sounds like a spy novel.”For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.Now that she has fled Russia, and is no longer under threat from Putin's officials, she has ramped up her anti-Russia rhetoric.“I don’t think Russia has a right to exist anymore,” she said.“Even before, there were questions about how it is united, by what values it is united, and where it is going.“But now I don’t think that is a question any more.“They are scared because they cannot.
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