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.
EXCLUSIVE: Natalie Juniardi recalls losing her husband John in the Bali bombings
newidea.com.auWith the 20th year anniversary of that terrible event upon us, Natalie, now 48, still vividly recalls the night she became a widow. “We’d just had a seafood meal together.
Pregnant with our second child, I was tired, so decided to head home, while John set off to the Sari Club,” she tells New Idea magazine.
Born in Nowra, southern NSW, Natalie had met John at Kuta Beach in 1993 when she was 19, living in Jakarta. She’d later moved to Bali to join him, and they married in 1996, on her 22d birthday.
Later John, a keen surfer, established a surfboard shop in Kuta, his pride and joy. Over dinner that fateful night of October 12, 2002, he’d been enthusing about his new factory, making surfboards for the shop.
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