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.
"I just thought, 'he's gone'": Mum recalls horror of night son died in Arena attack
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe mother of one of the 22 people who died in the Manchester Arena bombing believes she knew her son had passed away long before the police officially informed her.
June Tron lost her son Philip on that fateful night five years ago. Philip was killed alongside his partner's daughter, Courtney Boyle, while the pair were collecting her little sister from the Ariana Grande concert.
Now, on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the attack, June has relieved the worst hours of her life with the Newcastle Chronicle.
She says she is still haunted by the screams of other families finding out their loved one has been murdered. "It's just like a nightmare," the 66-year-old, from Harlow Green in Gateshead, reflected. "It's like you are standing on the outside looking in and thinking 'this can't be real'. "It's not like losing someone, it's like having them ripped away.
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