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.
Horror bike crash left Whitefield-born yoga teacher paralysed and trapped in hospital
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDon't miss a thing that's happening in and around Bury by signing up to the free MyBury newsletter A yoga teacher fractured her spine in a horrific bike crash and needed a six-hour emergency surgery.
Casey Newton, originally from Whitefield, was left isolating in a spinal rehabilitation ward and contemplating her future after the shocking incident in Cornwall.
Doctors have told her the injury is so severe that she may never walk again. But Casey says she has received hundreds of messages of support and has found her 'guardian angels' in the NHS staff helping her to ‘find laughter in every single day’.
The 30-year-old, who lives in Downderry, Cornwall, is Whitefield-born-and-raised — and it’s where she gained her twin passions.
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