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.
Police 999 operator who had never painted becomes an artist after having a stroke
mirror.co.ukA police 999 call handler who had never painted in her life has become an artist – after having a stroke. Janet Heaven was left virtually blind after suffering the stroke at work.
When her sight returned, she had an uncontrollable urge to paint after being struck by a new sense of the “radiant brilliance” in her garden.
And able to work from home for North Yorkshire Police, she began picking up a brush. Janet, 61, from Bedale, near Northallerton, said: “The garden became a source of colours from the flowers and insects. "I was brought up on a farm, so nature and the countryside are important.
The stroke brought them back more vividly than I’d ever experienced.” Her sister Sandra Parker has an art gallery in Barnard Castle, Co Durham.
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