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.
Colt Brennan death: Former University of Hawaii star quarterback dies aged 37
msn.comUniversity of Hawaii who finished third in the vote for the 2007 Heisman Trophy, has died aged 37. Brennan died in hospital in California, his father Terry Brennan revealed. “He just spent one too many times on the dark side of life, and it caught up with him,” he said.
Brennan had public struggles with alcohol after a brief career in the NFL. He was drafted by Washington but never played a regular season game in his two-year spell.
June Jones, the former Hawaii coach whom Brennan initially turned down they NFL to play for one more season, said: “Colt was clearly the star of our program and what he did after the 2006 season by staying in school said a lot about him and how he cared much more about Hawaii and his teammates.
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