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.
It's A Sin star Nathaniel Hall says HIV diagnosis at 16 was a 'wake up call'
mirror.co.ukIt's A Sin star Nathaniel Hall said that it was a 'wake up call' when he was diagnosed with HIV when he was just 16. The actor, who is now 34, found out that he was HIV positive after catching the virus the first time he had sex.
Nearly two decades on from his diagnosis, the Channel 4 star is now urging for people to get tested for the virus. Nathaniel plays Ritchie's boyfriend Donald in Russell T.
Davies' hit Channel 4 drama, that centres on the 1980 AIDS crisis in London. Speaking to Radio 1's Life Hacks at the start of this month, Nathaniel reflected on his diagnosis feeling like a 'slap in the face' when he was informed as a teenager. "When you're 16, you think you're an adult.
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