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.
Taylor Swift met UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Wembley, 10 Downing Street confirms
nme.comTaylor Swift met up with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer while she was in the country.According to a new report by The Guardian, the Labour leader and his family met Swift for around 10 minutes while backstage at her show at Wembley Stadium on August 20.It comes after Number 10 initially declined to comment as to whether or not the Prime Minister had met the singer, after he and his family were invited on August 16 to one of her numerous concerts at the venue.Now, it has been confirmed by a spokesperson for Downing Street that Starmer did briefly meet and speak to the singer while she was in the UK, and largely discussed the Southport murders.The incident in Southport took place on July 29, when three children were killed in a knife attack at a Swift-themed dance and yoga workshop.
As reported by Sky News, three of the victims – six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, and nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar – sadly passed.
A 17-year-old was charged with the murders of the three children.Swift spoke out about the tragedy in a statement on July 30, that the “horror” of the attack had left her “completely in shock”.
It was also reported that she had “reached out to families of stabbing victims” before returning to perform at Wembley Stadium on August 15, and met up with some of the victims at the venue.According to the Guardian report, Starmer and Swift spoke about the incident, and did not discuss the police escorts that had been provided for the singer and her entourage while she was in the city.This comes as the meeting took place just days after reports emerged that Swift had been granted police convoys to the stadium for her five August shows.
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