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.
Scots gangland smuggler in Iraq jail after surviving Greenock drive-by shooting
dailyrecord.co.uksmuggler who survived a drive-by shooting has been locked up in an Iraqi jail on gun charges.Kamaran Khader was shot at yards from a playpark in his home town of Greenock in May but survived when he jumped behind a car.
According to underworld sources, he was arrested in Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, en route to a meeting with the man who ordered the assassination attempt.
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