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.
Rioter shakes and cries in dock as he pleads guilty to attack on black man
dailyrecord.co.ukA rioter wept as he admitted his involvement in a disturbance which saw a black man attacked amid ugly scenes across the United Kingdom at the weekend.
Liam Ryan played an "active role" in disorder sparked by far-right thugs. But he broke down crying and shook in court as he pleaded guilty over his conduct.Ryan, of Bradford, held his hands up to the violent disorder offences, which took place in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre on Saturday, at Manchester Magistrates' Court this morning.
Prosecutor Laura Peers said the 28-year-old had travelled from West Yorkshire to take part in one of a number of "large scale disturbances" in Piccadilly Gardens.She said he was captured on camera "aiming a punch" towards a black man during an altercation after he was targeted by a "large group of far-right protesters".The Mirror reports the shocking footage showed the moment members of the group chucked a fence at the black man, who was punched and kicked after fighting broke out during a protest.
The video, which later went viral, captured several other people involved in the attack, including one man wrapped in an England flag.
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