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.
NBA star Lamar Odom were never the same after the tragic death of their six-month-old son Jayden in 2006. When the high school sweethearts' baby boy passed away from sudden infant death syndrome in his crib, it triggered her depression and his drug addiction. 'The trauma never goes away.
You constantly have to work on yourself when it comes to loss and depression,' the 42-year-old native New Yorker told People on Tuesday. 'It's all connected.
I lost myself in trying to co-parent with an addict, trying to guide my kids through the trauma of losing their sibling, of dealing with a father who's an addict and the constant headlines.
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