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.
Dramatic transformation of 'morbidly obese' dad who nearly died after nine-week Covid hospital stint
manchestereveningnews.co.ukdirect to your inboxA dad who spent nine weeks in hospital with Covid-19 says his brush with death inspired him to overhaul his previously unhealthy lifestyle.
Daimon Keith, 50, was morbidly obese when he was rushed to Wythenshawe Hospital in March 2020, after complaining of breathing issues.
The dad-of-two from Trafford was so ill from coronavirus, even a ventilator wasn't enough to keep him alive. Instead, he needed to be put on a life-saving ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine - which takes over a patient's heart and lung functions to allow the organs to recover.It's reserved for the sickest patients, and Wythenshawe is one of just five adult ECMO centres in the country.Since being released from hospital, Daimon has quit.
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