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.
Inside Jay Slater's tragic final moments – and fatal move that ended his life at 19
ok.co.ukJay Slater's first holiday abroad with friends ended in tragedy, with the British teenager now being laid to rest. Following a month-long search for the missing bricklayer, from Lancashire, his body was discovered by Spanish police within the depths of the unforgiving terrain of Parque Rural de Teno nature reserve in Tenerife.
His body was found close to where his phone last pinged. A UK post-mortem result concluded the 19-year-old's death was the result of traumatic head injuries consistent with a fall from height.
His funeral, taking place at Accrington Cemetery Chapel today on Saturday, August 10, is set to be a "celebration of his life", his family said, with well-wishers planning to attend asked to wear something blue in his memory.
Jay's disappearance came after he had partied at the three-day NRG musical festival before extending his night out with two British men he'd met on the Canary Island.
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