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.
Repair Shop’s Jay Blades reveals laughing policemen called him a ‘black b*****d’ while brutally beating him up aged 14
thesun.co.ukTHE Repair Shop's Jay Blades has revealed that laughing police officers called him a "black b*****d" while beating him up at the age of 14.
The 51-year-old star recently opened up about battling racism and homelessness, with his mum Barbara moving to the UK from Barbados when she was just 13 - having Jay five years later.
And even those who were supposed to offer him safety and security failed him, with Jay reflecting on the harrowing encounter with coppers in his new book.
The Mirror report that the TV favourite was walking home in North West London at the age of 14 when the van pulled up beside him.
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