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.
Tributes paid to well-known Perth businessman and founder of ski club
dailyrecord.co.ukPerth businessman David Hume, the driving force behind local ironmongers William Hume and Co for many years. Dave, as he was known to his friends, died, aged 74, in Greenfield Nursing Home, Glasgow.
He had lived with prostate cancer for a number of years and put up the “bravest of fights” against his condition. He was born in Perth on April 15, 1947, the only son of William and Margaret Hume, with his sister Elizabeth arriving into the world the following year.
William Hume and Co, which has been described as a “Perth institution,” occupied a prime site in the city centre, stretching from South Street to its extensive frontage onto South St John’s Place, flanking Perth City Hall.
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