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Taylor Swift - Wikipedia. Taylor Alison Swift (born December 1. American singer- songwriter. One of the leading contemporary recording artists, she is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 1. She signed with the label Big Machine Records and became the youngest artist ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. Her self- titled debut album in 2.

Billboard 2. 00 and spent the most weeks on the chart in the 2. The album's third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single- handedly write and perform a number- one song on the Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2. Buoyed by the success of pop crossover singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless became the best- selling album of 2.

United States. The album won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest Album of the Year winner. Watch Carry On Girls Megavideo more. Swift was the sole writer of her 2. Speak Now. It debuted at number one in the United States and the single "Mean" won two Grammy Awards.

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Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. One of the leading contemporary recording artists, she is known for narrative songs.

With her fifth album, the pop- focused 1. United States. Its singles "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood" reached number one in the US, Australia, and Canada.

The album received three Grammy Awards, and Swift became the first woman and fifth act overall to win Album of the Year twice. The 2. 01. 5 eponymous concert tour for 1.

Look What You Made Me Do", the lead single from her sixth album, Reputation (2. UK and US charts. As a songwriter, Swift has received awards from the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and was included in Rolling Stone's. Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2. She is also the recipient of 1. Grammy Awards, five Guinness World Records, one Emmy Award, 2. Billboard Music Awards, 1.

Country Music Association Awards, eight Academy of Country Music Awards, and one Brit Award. Watch Cut Bank Megavideo more. Swift is one of the best- selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 4. US—and 1. 30 million single downloads.

She has appeared in Time's. Forbes' top- earning women in music (2. Forbes'1. 00 most powerful women (2.

Forbes Celebrity 1. She was the youngest woman to be included in the third of these and ranked first in Celebrity 1.

Time Person of the Year in 2. Life and career. 19. Early life. Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 1. Reading, Pennsylvania.[1] Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a financial advisor, and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), was a homemaker who worked previously as a mutual fund marketing executive.[2] The singer has a younger brother named Austin.[3] Swift spent the early years of her life on a Christmas tree farm.[4] She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by Franciscan nuns,[5] before transferring to The Wyndcroft School.[6] The family then moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania,[7] where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.[8]At the age of nine, Swift became interested in musical theater and performed in four Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions.[9] She also traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons.[1. Swift later shifted her focus toward country music inspired by Shania Twain's songs, which made her "want to just run around the block four times and daydream about everything".[1. She spent her weekends performing at local festivals and events.[1. After watching a documentary about Faith Hill, Swift felt sure that she needed to go to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a music career.[1.

At the age of eleven, she traveled with her mother to visit Nashville record labels and submitted a demo tape of Dolly Parton and Dixie Chicks karaoke covers.[1. However, she was rejected since "everyone in that town wanted to do what I wanted to do. So, I kept thinking to myself, I need to figure out a way to be different".[1. When Swift was about 1. Ronnie Cremer taught her how to play guitar and helped with her first efforts as a songwriter, leading to her writing "Lucky You".[1. In 2. 00. 3, Swift and her parents started working with New York- based music manager Dan Dymtrow.

With his help, Swift modelled for Abercrombie & Fitch as part of their "Rising Stars" campaign, had an original song included on a Maybelline compilation CD, and attended meetings with major record labels.[1. After performing original songs at an RCA Records showcase, Swift was given an artist development deal and began making frequent trips to Nashville with her mother.[2.

To help Swift break into country music, her father transferred to the Nashville office of Merrill Lynch when she was 1. Hendersonville, Tennessee.[2. Swift attended public high school,[2. Aaron Academy, which through homeschooling could accommodate her touring schedule, and she graduated a year early.[2. Career beginnings and Taylor Swift. In Nashville, Swift worked with experienced Music Row songwriters such as Troy Verges, Brett Beavers, Brett James, Mac Mc. Anally, and The Warren Brothers.[2.

She eventually formed a lasting working relationship with Liz Rose.[2. They began meeting for two- hour writing sessions every Tuesday afternoon after school.[2. Rose thought that the sessions were "some of the easiest I've ever done. Basically, I was just her editor. She'd write about what happened in school that day.

She had such a clear vision of what she was trying to say. And she'd come in with the most incredible hooks". Swift was signed by the Sony/ATV Tree publishing house,[3. RCA Records when she was 1. She later recalled: "I genuinely felt that I was running out of time. Watch Unforgiven Mediafire on this page.

I wanted to capture these years of my life on an album while they still represented what I was going through".[3. At an industry showcase at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe in 2. Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a Dream.

Works Records executive who was preparing to form his own independent record label, Big Machine Records. She had met Borchetta in 2. She became one of the first signings, and her father purchased a three percent stake in the fledgling company at an estimated cost of $1. The singer began working on her eponymous debut album shortly after signing the record deal. She persuaded Big Machine to hire her demo producer Nathan Chapman, with whom she felt she had the right "chemistry".[1.

Swift wrote three of the album's songs alone, and co- wrote the remaining eight with writers Rose, Robert Ellis Orrall, Brian Maher, and Angelo Petraglia.[3. Taylor Swift was released on October 2. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times described it as "a small masterpiece of pop- minded country, both wide- eyed and cynical, held together by Ms.

Swift's firm, pleading voice".[3. Taylor Swift peaked at number five on the Billboard 2. As of August 2. 01. Big Machine Records was still in its infancy on the release of the lead single, "Tim Mc. Graw", in June 2.

Swift and her mother helped "stuff the CD singles into envelopes to send to radio".[4. She spent much of 2. Taylor Swift with a radio tour and television appearances.[4. Borchetta has said that record industry peers disliked his signing of a 1.

Swift tapped into a previously unknown market—teenage girls who listen to country music.[2. Following "Tim Mc. Graw", four more singles were released throughout 2.