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 to 'beautiful' student, 22, who died in hit-and-run outside takeaway
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTributes have been paid to a 'beautiful' student who died in a hit-and-run outside a takeaway in Shropshire. Rebecca Steer, 22, and another pedestrian were hit by a car that mounted a kerb outside the Grill Out takeaway in Willow Street, Oswestry, at 2.50am on Sunday, West Mercia Police said.
Ms Steer was rushed to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital but tragically died short time later. The second person remains in hospital for treatment.
After an appeal was issued to trace the driver, police said a 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. READ MORE: Girl, 5, and dad killed 'buying birthday cake' as all 10 people who died in Ireland petrol station horror named Ms Steer's family have now paid tribute to her, describing her as a 'the most loving, talented and kind-hearted person you could ever wish to know'.
She is believed to have been studying criminal justice at university in Liverpool, and lived in the Welsh border village of Llanymynech, the Mail Online reports.
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