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.
Why Andrew Grima, the jeweller beloved of Bond girls and royalty, continues to enchant
telegraph.co.ukTime magazine had a new name for London: the Swinging City.The same year, Andrew Grima won the Duke of Edinburgh's Prize for Elegant Design, which cited new techniques that "have given much greater scope to the designer and have released him from rigid conventions of settings - and much of the credit for this liberation, and for the new gaiety that has resulted, must go to Andrew Grima." He had succeeded in attaching value to "creative design, as distinct from the intrinsic value of the precious stones and metals".
The citation also noted, "With these changes the designer has achieved a personal status very different from his immediate predecessors."To paraphrase, Andrew Grima had become Britain's first celebrity jeweller.
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