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.
Strangeways lifer with 'anger issues' brutally attacked 'smallest and most defenceless' prison officer
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A lifer serving his sentence at Strangeways brutally attacked a female prison officer, targeting her because she was the 'smallest and most defenceless' victim he could find.
Carlos Racitalal, 34, repeatedly punched the woman to the face, then started kicking her when she fell over. Racitalal is serving a life sentence for attempted murder after a series of random attacks in Leicester.
In one, he slit the throat of a 10-year-old boy. Racitalal also stabbed a mum in the head as she walked down the street with her children; knifed a man in his 70s; and deliberately drove his car at five-year-old girl in an Asda car park.
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