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.
Inspirational Scots amputee finds new lease of life as Paralympian after horror RAF accident
dailyrecord.co.ukAn inspiring amputee has told how competing in the Paralympics restored her confidence after a horror accident in the RAF. Shona Brownlee, from Livingston, West Lothian, was a former member of the Royal Air Force when she broke her ankle during a final training exercise.
After it failed to heal, she developed complications which led to the below-knee amputation. Devastated by the incident, she feared that her career in the armed forces was over before it had the chance to get off the ground.
But determined to find the positives, inspiring Shone explored sitskiing as part of a military programme. From there, she went on to secure her place as a Paralympian competing in Bejing in 2022.Shona told Edinburgh Live: "It was definitely a life-changing injury and things were pretty tough at the start.
I was faced with the prospect of losing my career when it had barely begun. Learning to sitski opened up a whole new world. It showed me that 'disability' didn't necessarily mean 'inability' and that I was still able to achieve things despite my injury."Eventually, Shona was invited to join Armed Forces Para-Snowsport Team (AFPST), who lent her equipment and provided coaching.
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