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.
Tributes paid to Plymouth 'local celebrity'
msn.comRead more: Diners evacuated from busy Plymouth restaurant and barHeartbroken by his death, Ellie said: "We thought he would live forever.
He had prostate cancer for a long time but he was 93 and he was tired and his time had come. "He was like a little local celebrity of Plymouth it seems because so many people knew him.
Everywhere we went people would say hello to him. He was always getting stopped by random people, especially when walking through town. "He was really loving and would do anything for anybody.
But he never wanted to accept help himself. He was very independent and stubborn. "He and my daughter Illice were inseparable.
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