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.
Welcome to New Manchester - the 'forgotten village' whose streets copy Manchester could be swallowed up
manchestereveningnews.co.ukI'm walking along Shudehill, heading towards 'The City'. But underneath my feet there's a dirt track, not the pavements of the city centre.
The only sounds are of birds darting in and out of hedgerows and up ahead I can see a flock of sheep grazing in a field, rather than the bars and shops of the Northern Quarter.
That's because I'm in New Manchester, a tiny former pit village on the outskirts of Wigan and Salford. Read more: The Park: The Greater Manchester 'workers' village' that was 'like an island' - now only a couple of streets are left Its unusual name came after the miners who moved here from Manchester in the early 19th Century to work in the Duke of Bridgewater's collieries named the streets and pits after places from back home.
Hence the village, which amounts to not much more than a few of farms and a row of terrace houses, is still known by its nickname 'The City'.
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