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.
Brooke Shields: 'Health crisis has been the biggest blessing in disguise'
msn.comBrooke Shields is determined to turn her health nightmare into a teaching moment for her children after a tumble off a balance board left her fearing death.
The Blue Lagoon star has been learning to walk again after breaking her femur in a New York gym in late January, an injury which required her to undergo two emergency surgeries, as well as overcoming a staph infection in her arm.
At the time, Shields had been on a health kick as she neared the end of a 14-day workout and clean eating plan, and although she's still in recovery, Shields considers the personal crisis a "blessing" in disguise. "I think it's almost been the biggest blessing to date, because I realised what a fighter I am," she told Good Morning America.
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