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.
Home and Away's Holly Brisley: 'My big return to the spotlight'
newidea.com.au“It was an odd turn of events,” Holly tells. “I went on a trip to Africa to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and I couldn’t breathe as I was approaching the summit, so I was forced to stop.
I found out later I had a high-altitude pulmonary edema and could have died if I continued.” That close call in 2010 inspired the actress and TV presenter, who’s married to marketing executive Paul Ford, to reassess her life and step back from the limelight.
A year before the near-fatal trek, Holly gave birth to their first child, son Levi. “There was a moment during the height of that ordeal when things seemed so bad, my nightmare was I’d never make it off that mountain alive,” says Holly, who did the trek to support the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, who raise funds
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