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.
READ MORE: Woman with world's longest nails swerves salon for 22 years – and struggles in loo And who better to start with than Diana Armstrong, who currently trumps everyone by having the longest fingernails on a pair of female hands ever.
Each set measures a supreme 1,306.58cm (42ft 10.4in) and this year she became a Guinness World Record holder. Despite being thrilled with the award, the story behind her achievement is heartbreaking.
She stopped cutting her nails in 1997 when her 16-year-old daughter tragically died. Latisha used to manicure Diana’s hands every weekend before her fatal asthma attack.
Diana then declared never to cut them and she stuck to her promise having last visited a salon 22 years ago. Opening up on the challenges, she said: “Zipping up my pants or jacket.
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