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 mum of teen Manchester Arena bombing victim tells of how world was 'torn apart' after attack
dailyrecord.co.ukManchester Arena bombing, the public inquiry into the terror attack heard. Marion MacLeod had arrived outside the arena to collect her daughter Eilidh, 14, and her friend who had been to the Ariana Grande concert.
Mrs MacLeod, from the island of Barra in Scotland's Outer Hebride s, had travelled south with her daughter, a music lover and bagpipe player, staying over in a hotel in Manchester close to the Arena.
Her daughter, the middle one of three sisters, was "beyond excited" to be attending the event, Mrs MacLeod said in a statement read to the inquiry, the pair using Facetime and swapping messages during the show.Mrs MacLeod said: "She was loving life and I told her to sing her heart out and dance the night away."I told that I would be.
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