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.
Scots boy lost fingers and toes in horror sepsis battle as desperate mum tries to raise £60k for surgery
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots mum is desperate to help her young son walk 'pain free' after he lost his fingers and toes following a battle with sepsis.
Jakub Kolek, six, from Edinburgh, was rushed to hospital with a serious infection at the age of just 18 months. His condition quickly worsened when sepsis set in and doctors were unsure if the youngster would survive.Against all the odds Jakub pulled through, but the sepsis caused severe damage in his limbs - eventually causing the tissue in his hands and feet to die.Jakub lost multiple fingers and all of his toes and five years on, he is is still in pain every time he walks.Now his mum Karina Kolek, 32, has opened up on her heartbreaking ordeal as she attempts to fundraise cash for a potentially life-changing
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