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.
'Beautiful soul': Tributes flood in for Kilmarnock mum, 38, who passed away
dailyrecord.co.ukTributes have flooded in for a Kilmarnock mum who was found dead over the weekend. Nicola McClay has been described as a "beautiful soul inside and out" after she passed away on Friday.The 38-year-old hairdresser was incredibly popular in the town and was a loving mother to Skye, 15, and Enzo, six.Close friend Debbie Livingston described Nicola as being more like a sister to her.
She told Ayrshire Live : "Nicola meant so much to everyone she came across, she was just the most beautiful soul inside and out. "She would do anything for anyone.
The definition of a true friend to anyone she loved."She was there for all her friends anytime we needed her. She had the most infectious personality and laugh, with a smile that could light up any
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