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.
SAS hero relives time he 'nearly had face cut off' during deadly Somali bomb
dailystar.co.ukDaily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A former SAS soldier has revealed he almost had his "face cut off" during a deadly bomb blast in Somalia.Mark "Billy" Billingham said he was within "an inch" from death when a "massive explosion" in the country's bustling capital Mogadishu.The ex-Special Forces-operative-turned-Hollywood bodyguard was teaching at a security company's heavily-protected training academy when the bomb blew a bulletproof window across the room, missing him by just a few centimetres."The glass that was supposed to be bulletproof glass, which was about an inch thick, comes straight across the room, missed my face and stuck in the wall on the opposite side.
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