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.
Brit gran who smuggled cocaine on cruise liner dies from cancer alone in Portugal jail
dailyrecord.co.ukA British gran caught smuggling £1million worth of cocaine on a cruise liner has died alone and in severe pain in her cramped jail cell.
Susan Clarke, 72, passed away from breast cancer on October 10 in the Portuguese prison where she was serving an eight-year sentence.
The Mirror reports that as her condition deteriorated she was allowed one last visit from her partner Roger, 73, two years after they were locked up in separate cells.
A source stated Susan had been due to return to England to finish her jail term and being without her family in her final moments must have been "torture".They said: “She was handed a life sentence – left to die in a foreign prison with no loved ones around her.“Four weeks ago she was given one last visit
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