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.
Stockport mum penned award-winning novel on phone notes app while raising two kids
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA Heaton Chapel mum-of-two has been handed a prestigious award for her debut novel - which she wrote using her mobile phone.
Halima Khatun, who wrote her book — The Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage — while raising two toddlers at home, said the win was ‘definitely a surprise’.
She has been awarded the 2021 Bookbrunch Selfie Award for adult fiction, with the award being supported by the Nielson ISBN Agency and London Book Fair. “I entered in December and forgot about it,” Halima told the Manchester Evening News. “I was not expecting to be shortlisted, and there were other books with 2,500 review on Amazon and I only have 150 — so it was a great shock! “I went on to the Zoom not expecting anything at all so it definitely was a
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