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.
Tragedy as woman takes own life after celebrating 39th birthday with friends
dailyrecord.co.ukA woman was found dead at a former YMCA just two days after her birthday, an inquest has heard. Cheryl Burton, who had been living at the hostel for six months, left notes in her room after struggling with drugs and abusive relationships throughout her life.
Assistant coroner, Jane Eatock, presiding at Cleethorpes Town Hall inquest, concluded that the 39-year-old's death was suicide after reading the messages written by the mum-of-two.
A quantity of cocaine was also found in her body during a post mortem examination, Grimsby Live reports. Cheryl had been out celebrating her 39th birthday with friends on November 3, 2020, however had not been seen by any YMCA staff the following day.They checked her room, where curtains were pulled shut and the room in darkness.
But they could not see her.The following day, November 5, another routine check was made and the tragic death discovered. She had a cardboard cut out cross under her top, the inquest heard.Her family from Scunthorpe attended the hearing to pay tribute to Cheryl.Her sister Mary Wraith said they had a "fun childhood growing up together" and remembered her sister, nine years her elder, as "loud and gobby."She said: "They were happy times.
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