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.
Heartbreak as 'brave' mum, 33, dies months after cancer diagnosis
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTributes have been paid to a mum-of-two who has died just months after being diagnosed with cancer. Doctors initially put Danielle Tara Harker's pain down to Crohn's Disease which she had been living with since the age of 17.
However, the 33-year-old later received the devastating news that she had stage four bowel cancer. Danielle, from Burnley, Lancashire, was mother to Shae, three and Arlo, two, and had been married to Anthony Harker since 2017, Lancs Live reports.
Tributes to the popular mother have flooded on social media as friends and relatives remembered a 'dear friend' who 'always went the extra mile'. READ MORE: Under-fire Manchester Airport bosses told to 'get a grip or get out' Her heartbroken father, Mark Folley wrote: "I cannot put into words how I feel.
I dropped the kids off at nursery this morning, then drove to the funeral home where Danielle is. I stood there with my hands on the door of the building, just so that Danielle would know she was not alone.
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