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.
Anneka Rice admits she almost 'murdered' her dad in hospital 'through deep love'
dailystar.co.ukREAD MORE: Iconic '90s TV show Challenge Anneka set to return on a brand new channel “More or less the first thing that happened crossing the road, my dad, unable to balance, broke his hip.“He ended up in hospital on a busy geriatric ward which nearly finished him off.“He was dazed and confused and it broke my heart.”Rice added: “I looked and I looked, deep into my soul, and I looked at the pillow and I took one of his pillows.
And I looked round the rest of the ward and I held the pillow up.“And I wanted so much to help him on his way as all our elderly parents say, ‘Please don’t let me linger in pain’.
Rice then said: “I told forensic anthropologist Dame Sue Black that I nearly murdered my dad.”Dame Black said: “The one thing that connects what you wanted to do, which sounds like such a vicious act to most, is that it was through love.”Rice said: “It was through deep love.”Speaking to Alzheimer's Research UK about her dad's condition, Anneka said: "In the throes of his dementia, the time of his life he liked to revisit in his head was visits to a health spa and we would spend hours in the sitting room queuing for the steam bath, wondering why the swimming pool wasn’t open.For more of the latest showbiz news from Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here. “I grew up sharing his love for DIY and during his illness we’d spend hours looking at swatches of paint and choosing a colour for a tie or a shed.
I asked him once, ‘Dad, what’s my name?’."He looked at me tenderly and said ‘Dulux’, and inexplicably, this brought me comfort."Anneka admitted that brain health is a huge concern after both her parents were diagnosed with the disease.READ MORE:.
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