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.
Transgender woman shot while being treated by paramedics in Charlotte, N.C.
metroweekly.comMonika Diamond – Photo: Facebook. A transgender woman was shot and killed while she was being treated by paramedics in the parking lot of a Days Inn in Charlotte, N.C., last week.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say officers responded to reports of a disturbance at the Days Inn/Azteca Mexican Restaurant parking lot on E.
Woodlawn Road in south Charlotte around 4 a.m. on March 18. There, they encountered five or six people, including 34-year-old Monika Diamond, who complained she was experiencing of shortness of breath.
Medics were called to the parking lot and began treating Diamond, when 32-year-old Prentice Bess tried to enter the ambulance.
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