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.
Dedication pays off for Perth's Nathan Bartlett in Scottish kickboxing title win
dailyrecord.co.ukMonths of 5am morning runs were all worth it when Nathan Bartlett earned victory.The 28-year-old from Perth was delighted to earn a national kickboxing title on Saturday evening.He brought a WKA Scotland 67kg (full contact) belt back to the Fair City after an impressive performance at Rivals Gym in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire.Nathan, who represents Style Combat Fitness, defeated Derek Patterson to claim the honour.“I’ve been coming back from a knee injury and, in the past few months, my coach (Ryan Lyall) has been pushing me and saying I’m still capable of doing the kickboxing,” Nathan said.“I’d had the odd competition here and there.
There were competitions in Glasgow and Newcastle where I came out with medals.“But for this latest fight night, there was a title on the line.
So no pressure.”Nathan, discussing the deciding moment, continued: “We were in close and I managed a left hand to the body.“It caught him with enough volume and the referee counted to six seconds, then eight.
At that point I knew he wasn’t getting back up.“I was bouncing around the ring but my coach Ryan was screaming at me to calm down.
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