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.
Mum of Scots teen who took own life after dad abused her left 'disgusted' over fears he will get parole
dailyrecord.co.ukThe mother of a teenager who took her own life after her father sexually abused her has been left "disgusted" after learning he is up for parole less than a year after her daughter's death.
Megan Reid, from Livingston in West Lothian, was just 17 years old when she died on April 5, 2022. Two years earlier, in 2019, her dad Joseph McGinn was convicted of sexually assaulting her.
Megan's mum, Gemma Mckeown, previously told the Record how McGinn's vile abuse left Megan so "broken" that she was never able to come to terms with what she had been through.
Ten months on from losing Megan, Gemma, 34, has been left shocked to learn that McGinn is up for automatic parole in early February after she was contacted by another one of his victims.Gemma told the Record: "I feel absolutely disgusted.
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