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.
She might be tiny but Sofia Viktoria Birina, born at just 22 weeks, has been through the biggest battle of her life to spend her first magical Christmas at home.
The cheeky 14-month-old little girl is Scotland's youngest-ever surviving premature baby and has defied all medical odds. As she celebrated Christmas ripping open presents and pulling on the baubles of the tree, mum Egija and dad Inars, who live in Airdrie, said her survival was their greatest gift.Egija, 23, said: "It was beyond magical as it was a day we thought we would never see.
This time last year we were keeping a vigil by her hospital incubator."People talk about Christmas miracles – well, Sofia is our forever miracle."She is our angel baby and our teeny cheeky warrior
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