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.
Young Scots mum's 'life saved by sister' after falling ill with deadly infection
dailyrecord.co.ukA cancer patient who fell ill with an infection which can cause deadly sepsis had her life saved by her sister's gut instinct.
Mum-of-one Stephanie Thomson, 33, who is receiving chemo for extra skeletal renal rhabdoid cancer, was urinating blood but wanted to go to bed and hope it would go away.
Her sister Michelle Fulton, 37, a mum-of-three, insisted she seek medical help on April 3. After Stephanie, a hairdressing salon owner, called the Beatson Cancer Unit in Glasgow where she is being treated, she was admitted urgently.
She was then diagnosed with a blood culture infection, which can cause sepsis.Stephanie, from Elderslie, Renfrewshire, said: "Michelle just knew that something more serious was going on and wouldn't let up at me to pick up the phone and get myself checked out.
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