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.
Family devastated as two-year-old son's 'viral infection' turns out to be cancer
dailyrecord.co.ukA family had their world turned upside down when their toddler's "viral infection" turned out to be a kidney cancer. Two-year-old Jamie Clarke was rushed to Alder Hey Children's Hospital by worried mum Ashley Hughes, 21, after she noticed a lump on the side of his stomach, the Liverpool Echo reports.Doctor's originally though the youngster was suffering from a viral infection, as his glands were also swollen, however concerned dad Jamie, 24, took him back to hospital the next day.
Nan Angela Daniels, 31, from Kensington, explained: "The next day his dad noticed this lump again and he wasn't happy so he took him back to Alder Hey. "They said it was constipation and again it could be his glands.
Ashley brought Jamie to my house on Sunday and he didn't look himself."He was very grey and white, he wasn't sitting properly in his pram and he couldn't really walk."Angela said Jamie's grandad Andrew was also concerned after seeing the lump and she took him back to Alder Hey.After undergoing blood tests, the family was told Jamie had anaemia and he was kept in hospital overnight.The results of further tests revealed the two-year-old had a tumour that was 11cm by 8cm in size and he also had polycystic cysts on his kidneys.Angela said: "They didn't know if it was benign or cancerous at this point."Due to the amount of cysts on his kidneys, Angela said doctors were concerned that a biopsy could cause them to burst.Angela said: "On January 7 he underwent an eight hour operation to remove the tumour and kidney."Doctors told Jamie's family the devastating news he had a Wilms tumour - a type of kidney cancer that primarily affects children.Angela said: "It was horrible.
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