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.
Family given devastating diagnosis after noticing something on baby's eye
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA family have been left devastated after their 16-month-old tot received a heartbreaking diagnosis. Harper Walker was just 13 months old when her parents started noticing a bruise on her eyelid.
Mum Jenny Huddart and dad Adam Walker initially thought the bruise must have come from a minor accident when playing with a toy as baby Harper was becoming more mobile.
However, after the bruise kept growing and started to push her eye out of shape, they knew something was wrong. The family of seven, from Swinton, received the devastating diagnosis just after Easter after a number of tests that Harper a rare form of cancer known as Neuroblastoma, a condition that affects around only 100 children per year.
Further tests would go to show this was a stage four, high risk, cancer metastases in multiple locations across her body. READ MORE: Kind actions of stranger bring smile to face of family as son rushed to surgery after 'screaming in pain' Mum Jenny told the Manchester Evening News: "Harper was born with hip dysplasia and to to be in a cast until last December and started moving more after that.
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