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.
Teenager who took his own life 'wanted to be reunited with murdered mum'
dailyrecord.co.uktook his own life "wanted to be with his mum" who was murdered by his own father. Troubled 17-year-old Jamie McKitten, who hid in his bedroom while his mum was being murdered when he was just a four-year-old tot, was struck and sadly killed by a train on March 31.
His father, Stuart Cummings, was handed a life sentence in prison for raping and brutally beating Jamie's mother Kelly to death in 2008.
During a hearing into Jamie's death on July 16 at Crook Civic Centre, the inquest heard how the trauma that Jamie experienced as a child continued to haunt him throughout his life.
Read more on dailyrecord.co.uk
