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.
‘Life goes on’ Noel Cunningham forever grateful to his niece for helping him get sober
evoke.ieNoel Cunningham, the Hotel Ambassador at Harvey’s Point and Donegal Person of the Year 2020, has spoken about his decision to get sober over two decades ago.
He explained that he will ‘never take anything for granted again’ after getting sober. The hotelier said he knew he needed to get clean as he had reached ‘his rock bottom’ 25 years ago when his sister and brother-in-law were killed in a car crash.
During the funeral, he was kept thinking ‘where can I get my next drink?’. ‘You think in a lot of cases you think you’re fooling a lot of people, but in reality, you’re only fooling yourself,’ he told Ray D’Arcy on his RTÉ 1 radio show.
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