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.
Ukrainian refugee fled to Falkirk after bombed hometown turned into 'hell'
dailyrecord.co.ukA refugee who fled Ukraine to live with her future in-laws in Falkirk told how her hometown was destroyed by bombing - and turned into "hell." Natasha Matiusha, 29, heard a vacuum bomb soaring over her hometown of Chernihiv, in northern Ukraine, which destroyed the school she went to only 800 metres from her home, which killed 20 people.She lay on the bathroom floor with her hands over her ears, fearing for her life.Natasha is now safe and living in Bonnybridge, with her future in-laws, Helen and Donald MacKinven.Her boyfriend, Lewis Pantony, 26, helped her escape to Warsaw, Poland, where she stayed for two weeks before travelling to Scotland on March 28.Natasha left her brother, Alexey, 44, fighting in Ukraine, and also had to leave her cat, Solomon, who escaped when he was spooked by bombing.She described being in Scotland as feeling like a holiday, and is hopeful she can one day return to Ukraine.Natasha said: "It's extremely painful to see what people are going through and all a bit surreal."They have destroyed my home, they've shelled the cemetery and destroyed my parent's graves, destroyed my old school and my childhood memories."What is wrong with these people?
What they are doing to the people of Ukraine is genocide."She returned to Ukraine in September last year after working in China, where she met her partner and had hoped to visit Scotland under different circumstances.Natasha said her brother was skeptical about the chances of war breaking out, and it came as a surprise when she got a call from a friend who works as a police officer.She said: "I hadn't slept well that night, had terrible dreams about being trapped and I became aware of my phone ringing."I couldn't think who was calling me."When I answered
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