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.
Young mum jumped from a window after obsessed cocaine-fuelled boyfriend threatened to cut her throat
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the MyTameside newsletter here to keep abreast of what's happening in your neighbourhood A terrified young mum jumped eight feet from the first floor of her Hattersley home to escape her obsessed and controlling boyfriend who had held a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her.
The story of 28-year-old Amy Bradbury's ordeal was told as serial domestic abuser Jayden Knight, also 28, was sentenced to three years and nine months for his crimes.
Minshull Street Manchester Crown Court sitting at Stockport magistrates' court heard how Middleton man Knight had subjected at least four other girlfriends to the same abuse.
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