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.
Student 'fortunate to survive' after being stabbed in face following row over 'fake drugs'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA student could have died after being stabbed in the face following a row over 'fake drugs'. He collapsed in hospital and had to be resuscitated three times after losing a significant amount of blood.
Mohamed Jeylaani, 20, knifed following an argument in the street near the Courtyard bar off Oxford Road. READ MORE : Coward raped woman in vile attack - then lied to police about what he had done Just before the brutal stabbing, the victim had bought some drugs from a man nearby, after spending the afternoon in the bar with a friend.
After realising the white powder wasn't actually amphetamine, he went back and tried to find the dealer, at about 10pm on October 14 last year.
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