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.
The abusive relationship that ended with a drug dealer killing his girlfriend and himself
manchestereveningnews.co.ukconcluded that the pair had died as a result of a murder-suicide. The coroner leading the inquiry said that Kirwin had killed Niki and ‘rather than facing justice, he intentionally took his own life’.The family of Nichola, known as Niki, described the last three years as 'hell'.
Meanwhile, a domestic homicide review reveals the abusive and complex background to the couple's deaths. In the wake of the inquest, the Manchester Evening News looks at the report, which examines how the tragedy unfolded, and if the authorities could have acted differently.
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