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.
War between 'feral youths' in north Manchester is being linked to gun battle between two cars in St Peter's Square
manchestereveningnews.co.ukdirect to your inboxPolice believe groups of 'feral youths' from north Manchester are behind a shocking shooting incident in one of the city's main squares.At least four shots were fired from a red Ford Mondeo at a silver Vauxhall Astra as the cars raced through the city centre on Saturday night.The Astra crashed into a lamppost in St Peter's Square and the four occupants ran off while the Mondeo sped away and hasn't been seen since.As a police investigation into the incident continues, the M.E.N.
can reveal officers believe the shooting is linked to an increasingly violent street war between two groups of young men in Newton Heath and Moston.Detectives have uncovered drugs and arrested four suspects, the youngest just 15.One senior officer.
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