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.
Grieving Scots mum shares heartbreaking back to school message after losing five-year-old son to fatal virus
dailyrecord.co.ukmum has shared a heartbreaking back-to-school message after losing her five-year-old son to a deadly virus. Arlene Smith's son Jack passed away in December 2012 after falling ill with a adenovirus infection - a common virus which in most cases sees patients suffer from upper respiratory symptoms.
In serious cases the virus can also invade the lungs and intestines. Rarely, these viruses sneak past the immune system and strike the liver, heart or brain.Jack had gone to bed with a temperature, but when his dad tried to wake him for school the following morning the youngster was unconscious.
He was rushed to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, in Edinburgh, where doctors discovered he had been left brain damaged due to a lack of oxygen.
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