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.
Dad-of-two brought back to life after suffering a heart attack on holiday
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing A dad of two was 'brought back to life' after suffering a heart attack while out running on a family holiday in Wales.
James Bagby, 47, had gone for a run along Black Rock Sands in Porthmadog when he collapsed at the side of the road. It was the first week of his holiday and he had been training for the Dublin Marathon when he suffered the cardiac arrest.
A cardiologist working at Warrington's Venturi Cardiology, the North-West's first independent healthy heart clinic, later diagnosed both James and his twin-brother with the same heart condition.
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