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.
Scot paralysed from neck down after freak paddle board accident on family holiday
dailyrecord.co.ukA young graduate was paralysed from the neck down after a freak paddle boarding accident on a family holiday in Hungary. Michael Wells, from West Linton in the Borders, was enjoying a break with his parents and siblings for his cousin's wedding when tragedy struck last month.The 28-year-old was paddle boarding with his mum in Lake Balaton, a popular watersports spot, when he dived off of the board to give his mum a turn.The engineering graduate hit the seabed and broke his neck instantly.
His twin brother David spotted him floating face down in the water and dragged him to shore on his paddle board.Michael, who remembers the terrifying ordeal, later told his family: "I heard and felt my neck break when my head hit the bottom. "I couldn't move my arms or my legs.
I knew I was paralysed and I thought I was going to drown. Somehow, I just told myself to hold my breath."Michael's dad Andy began giving his son mouth-to-mouth after he stopped breathing on the beach.
His mum Christina, an NHS nurse, and sister Seòna performed chest compressions in a desperate bid to keep him alive while waiting for paramedics.Michael was taken by emergency helicopter to an ICU unit at a hospital in Győr and sedated.
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