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.
Scots dad with brain tumour forced to wear noise-cancelling headphones around young daughter
dailyrecord.co.ukHe has asthma-like symptoms, struggles with walking and, when playing with his two-year-old little girl, has to wear ear defenders to block his hyper-sensitivity to movement and sound.
Yet, doting dad-of-one, Jerome van Leeuwen, knows it’s all in his head – because he is, and has been since a toddler, living with a brain tumour.Jerome was his daughter’s age when he was diagnosed with a pilocytic astrocytoma brain tumour – the most common type of brain and spinal cord tumour in children.
Although surgeons were convinced they had completely removed the tumour, Jerome – who is now aged 42 – had regular scans until he was 15 years old.But then, in 2012, he began complaining of migraines.
Mindful of his brain tumour history, his doctor referred him for a scan, which revealed the unthinkable – he had a walnut-sized brain tumour.It, too, was a pilocytic astrocytoma, meaning that Jerome and his loving family had to wrestle with the devastating news that his brain tumour had returned.
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