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.
Sharon Stone: My near-death experience was strange and beautiful
msn.comSharon Stone says her near-death experience in 2001 was “very strange” and “very beautiful”. The 63-year-old actress suffered a stroke and came close to death 20 years ago, and after recently discussing the topic in her memoir, ‘The Beauty of Living Twice’, Sharon has now detailed the process of her hospitalisation, which happened after she experienced bleeding in her brain for several days.
She said: "I became unconscious when I got [to hospital]. I fell out of the truck and I became unconscious. And they put me in a CT scan machine to find out what was happening to me and I was unconscious that whole time. “Then when I came to, I was on a table in a very quiet emergency room, which is never good - when it's like no one's in there, just.
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