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.
James ‘Arg’ Argent is celebrating a year of sobriety by swimming from Europe to Africa
thesun.co.ukJAMES ‘ARG’ Argent has never done things by halves – and the way he plans to celebrate an addiction-free year is not exactly low-key.
The former Towie regular plans to swim from Europe to Africa to mark the occasion and hopes to film the feat for a TV show. Arg, who suffered two near-fatal drug overdoses in 2019 as he battled various addictions, has started training for the challenge, known as the Strait of Gibraltar Crossing.
It will see him dodge ferries, sharks and jellyfish on the ten-mile swim, which takes trained swimmers more than four hours.
A source said: “It’s a mad thing to undergo, but Arg is at his best with a goal in mind. “He’s told mates he’s determined to stay fit and well after a good year of doing so, so he is undertaking.
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