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.
Tributes paid to 'lovely' young man just graduated from university who died after car crashed into Salford pub
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the MySalford newsletter to keep up with what's happening in and around the city Tributes have been paid to a 'lovely' and 'kind' young man who died after a horror crash in Salford.
Farakh Akhtar, 23, was travelling as a passenger in a car which crashed into the Black Friar Pub in the early hours of Sunday, 18 July.
Heroic police officers rescued two men from the vehicle, which caught fire, but the passenger, Mr Akhtar, died a short time later. Read more:Fear and apathy on the streets of horror stabbing The student, from Stretford, had just graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a 2:1 in Sports Management.
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