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 family 'hysterical' and left with 'absolutely nothing' after home 'completely destroyed' in devastating fire
dailyrecord.co.ukA family has been left with "absolutely nothing" after their house was "completely destroyed" in a devastating fire. Andrea Loughrey, 51, and husband John, 53, say they are "still in shock" after their home in Kilmux Park in the village of Kennoway, Fife, was burnt out on Friday evening.
Fire crews were called to the property after the blaze spread from a neighbour's caravan at around 5pm.At the height of the incident, six fire engines were in attendance, with water being pumped overhead onto the house.Despite efforts to contain the inferno, within 20 minutes, it had destroyed everything in its wake, including clothes, furniture, baby photos and the couple's collection of keepsakes from all across the world.The fire also caused the roof to cave in.The only thing the couple managed to retrieve from the house that they had lived in for 19 years was Andrea's wedding ring, her late mum's engagement ring, the couple's passports and Andrea's mum and dad's ashes.Everything else was "unsalvageable".Andrea, an autism practitioner, told the Record: "I keep thinking of everything we've lost - how will we ever get that back?"I keep thinking my daughter could've been killed in that fire, my dogs could've been killed.
I keep waking up during the night hysterical. It just hits you that we've got nothing."I've been sat in the same position since Friday night, in the same pyjamas, I haven't even had a shower."People say it's bricks and mortar but it was our home.
It was absolutely everything to us."Andrea and John had just arrived in Edinburgh for a shopping trip when they received a phone call from their daughter, Zara, 20, telling them that their neighbour's caravan had caught fire.The pair raced home but by the time they arrived,
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