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 wish it was anything other than my eyes': How Covid left make-up artist with permanent nerve damage and a blind spot
manchestereveningnews.co.ukdirect to your inboxA talented make-up and body paint artist has bravely shared her agonising battle with Covid, revealing the virus has left her with permanent nerve damage in both eyes and a blind spot in one.Eight months on, Samantha Helen, 26, told how she had to learn to walk again - and adjust to her 'new eyesight' - after she suffered swelling on the brain caused by Covid.The 'mini' blind spot in her left eye, she says, is 'like a black orb'.Samantha's cosmetic work has won huge acclaim.She creates intricate designs and owns her own face and body art supplies company, as well as touring the country to teach and give demonstrations and classes.But in a hugely emotive Facebook video post, she said her life has now 'changed.
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