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 mum diagnosed with cancer after docs told her symptoms were all in her head for five years
dailyrecord.co.ukcancer after complaining of symptoms for five years. Kay Richards, 40, claims she was made to believe her symptoms, including body aches, weight loss and a persistent sore throat, were due to severe health anxiety and depression and was referred for counselling by her doctor at the Charleston Surgery in Paisley.
The single mum-of-one, from Paisley, said she knew something was not right in her body for several years and was desperate to get to the bottom of what was making her feel so poorly.
She added: "I knew it wasn't anxiety. Every day I felt so bad. I couldn't have possibly been making my symptoms up. I couldn't get out of bed in the morning until I took my painkillers.
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