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.
Rapist wins control of £7million lotto jackpot - after a 15 year fight
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA convicted rapist who won £7.2million after purchasing a lottery ticket whilst serving a prison sentence has been granted full access to the money.
Iorworth Hoare, 70, had been serving a life sentence for his attack on a woman when in 2004 he won the money whilst on leave from Leyhill open prison, Gloucestershire.
The daughter of one of his victims has urged him to give the cash to charity, just as her late mother did with the damages he was forced to pay her. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community Shirley Woodman was 59 when Hoare, who committed a series of sex attacks in the 70s and 80s, attempted to rape her as she walked through Roundhay Park in Leeds, in 1988, the Mirror reports.
Twenty years later, Shirley won her fight to change the law so she could claim compensation from Hoare, who eventually had to pay £50,000 damages and almost £800,000 in legal costs.
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