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.
Teen boy stabbed by gang of thugs at bus station in 'revenge' attack
dailyrecord.co.ukA teenage boy was stabbed and beaten up by a gang of thugs in a "revenge" attack at a busy bus station, a court has heard. As horrified members of the public looked on, the youngster was repeatedly punched, kicked and hit with a metal bar before being stabbed in the chest with a knife.
The person who wielded the blade was also aged just 14, Wales Online reports.The victim suffered a stab wound to the chest and a cut to his liver, and lost a large amount of blood, he was tended to by passers-by until paramedics arrived.
In a statement read out to Swansea Crown Court, the mother of the stabbed boy said it had been a "traumatic experience for the whole family" adding: "I want all the kids involved to know that using knives is not the answer." Carina Hughes, prosecuting, said the background to the assault was a fight between friends of the defendant and friends of the victim on February 9 this year.
Following the fight the victim began to receive threatening text messages. Miss Hughes said the following day the defendant armed himself with a knife and metal bar and met up with seven other youngsters - together they caught a bus from Swansea to Gorseinon with the weapons.
Read more on dailyrecord.co.uk
