Biography Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. She is

known for her genre-straddling discography and songwriting. Her narrative lyrics—often
inspired by her personal life—have received critical praise and widespread media coverage.
Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 14 to
pursue a career in country music. She signed a songwriting contract with Sony/ATV Music
Publishing in 2004 and a recording deal with Big Machine Records in 2005. Her eponymous
debut studio album arrived in 2006, and its singles "Teardrops on My Guitar" and "Our
Song" were successful on both country and pop radio.
She explored country pop on her next albums Fearless (2008) and Speak Now (2010), whose
singles "Love Story", "You Belong with Me" and "Back to December" established her as a
leading crossover act. Experiments with rock and electronic genres on her fourth studio
album, Red (2012), spawned the singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", "I
Knew You Were Trouble" and "22" that signaled Swift's transition to mainstream pop. She
eschewed country completely on her synth-pop album 1989 (2014) and its chart-topping
tracks "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood". Media scrutiny on her private life
inspired Reputation (2017), which drew from urban sounds. Led by "Look What You Made
Me Do", the album made Swift the only act in MRC Data history to have four albums each
sell over a million copies in a week.
Departing from Big Machine, Swift signed with Republic Records in 2018 and released her
seventh studio album, Lover (2019). Veered by the COVID-19 pandemic, she ventured
into indie folk and alternative rock styles on her 2020
albums, Folklore and Evermore, receiving plaudits for their nuanced storytelling. Following
a masters dispute, Swift released the re-recordings Fearless (Taylor's Version) and Red
(Taylor's Version) to universal acclaim in 2021. Number-one songs "Cardigan", "Willow"
and "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" made Swift the only act to simultaneously debut
atop the US Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts three times. Besides music, she has
played supporting roles in films such as Valentine's Day (2010) and Cats (2019), released the
autobiographical documentary Miss Americana (2020), and directed the musical
films Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020) and All Too Well: The Short
Film (2021).
With over 200 million records sold worldwide, Swift is one of the best-selling musicians of
all time. Eight of her songs have topped the Hot 100, and her concert tours are some of the
highest-grossing in history. She has received 11 Grammy Awards (including three Album of
the Year wins), an Emmy Award, 34 American Music Awards (the most for an artist),
29 Billboard Music Awards (the most for a woman) and 58 Guinness World Records,
among other accolades. She has featured on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All
Time (2015), Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists (2019),
the Time 100 and Forbes Celebrity 100 rankings. Having been honored with titles such
as Woman of the Decade and Artist of the Decade, Swift is regarded as a pop icon owing to
her influential career, philanthropy, and advocacy for artists' rights and women's
empowerment.
1989–2003: Early life and education

Swift's childhood home in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania

Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, at the Reading Hospital in West
Reading, Pennsylvania. Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a former stockbroker for Merrill
Lynch; her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), is a former homemaker who
previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive. Her younger brother, Austin, is an
actor. She was named after singer-songwriter James Taylor, and
has Scottish and German heritage. Her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, was an opera
singer. Swift's paternal great-great-grandfather was an Italian immigrant entrepreneur and
community leader who opened several businesses in Philadelphia in the 1800s. Swift spent
her early years on a Christmas tree farm that her father purchased from one of his
clients. Swift identifies as a Christian. She attended preschool and kindergarten at the
Alvernia Montessori School, run by the Bernadine Franciscan sisters, before transferring
to The Wyndcroft School. The family moved to a rented house in the suburban town
of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High
School.
At age nine, Swift became interested in musical theater and performed in four Berks Youth
Theatre Academy productions. She also traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and
acting lessons. 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." She spent weekends performing at local festivals and events. After watching a
documentary about Faith Hill, Swift felt sure she needed to move to Nashville, Tennessee, to
pursue a career in music. She traveled with her mother at age eleven to visit Nashville record
labels and submitted demo tapes of Dolly Parton and The Chicks karaoke covers. She was
rejected, however, because "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."
When Swift was around 12 years old, computer repairman and local musician Ronnie Cremer
taught her to play guitar. He helped with her first efforts as a songwriter, leading her to write
"Lucky You". In 2003, Swift and her parents started working with New York-based talent
manager Dan Dymtrow. With his help, Swift modeled 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. After performing original songs at
an RCA Records showcase, Swift, then 13 years old, was given an artist development deal
and began making frequent trips to Nashville with her mother.
To help Swift break into country music, her father transferred to Merrill Lynch's Nashville
office when she was 14 years old, and the family relocated to Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Swift initially attended Hendersonville High School before transferring to the Aaron
Academy after two years, which could better accommodate her touring schedule through
homeschooling. She graduated one year early.
2010–2014: Speak Now and Red

Swift performing at the Speak Now World Tour in 2012

In August 2010, Swift released "Mine", the lead single from her third studio album, Speak
Now. It entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at number three. Swift wrote the album alone and
co-produced every track. Speak Now, released on October 25, 2010, debuted atop
the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of one million copies. It became the fastest-selling
digital album by a female artist, with 278,000 downloads in a week, earning Swift an entry in
the 2010 Guinness World Records. The songs "Mine", "Back to December", "Mean", "The
Story of Us", "Sparks Fly", and "Ours" were released as singles. All except "The Story of Us"
were Hot Country Songs top-three entries, with "Sparks Fly" and "Ours" reaching number
one. "Back to December" and "Mean" peaked in the top ten in Canada. Later in 2010, she
briefly dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
During her tour dates for 2011, she wrote the lyrics of various songs written by other people
on her left arm. At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012, Swift won Best Country Song
and Best Country Solo Performance for "Mean", which she performed during the ceremony.
Media publications noted the performance as an improvement from her much criticized 2010
Grammy performance, which served as a testament to her abilities as a musician. Swift won
other awards for Speak Now, including Songwriter/Artist of the Year by the Nashville
Songwriters Association (2010 and 2011), Woman of the Year by Billboard (2011), and
Entertainer of the Year by the Academy of Country Music (2011 and 2012) and the Country
Music Association in 2011. At the American Music Awards of 2011, Swift won Artist of the
Year and Favorite Country Album. Rolling Stone placed Speak Now at number 45 in its 2012
list of the "50 Best Female Albums of All Time", writing: "She might get played on the
country station, but she's one of the few genuine rock stars we've got these days, with a
flawless ear for what makes a song click."
The Speak Now World Tour ran from February 2011 to March 2012 and grossed over
$123 million. In November 2011, Swift released a live album, Speak Now World Tour: Live.
She contributed two original songs to The Hunger Games soundtrack album: "Safe &
Sound", co-written and recorded with the Civil Wars and T-Bone Burnett, and "Eyes Open".
"Safe & Sound" won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media and was
nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.[117][118] Swift featured
on B.o.B's single "Both of Us", released in May 2012. From July to September 2012, Swift
dated Conor Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mary Richardson Kennedy.

Swift on the Red Tour (2013)

In August 2012, Swift released "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", the lead single
from her fourth studio album, Red. It became her first number one in the U.S. and New
Zealand, and reached the top slot on iTunes' digital song sales chart 50 minutes after its
release, earning the Fastest Selling Single in Digital History Guinness World Record. Other
singles released from the album include "Begin Again", "I Knew You Were Trouble", "22",
"Everything Has Changed", "The Last Time", and "Red". "I Knew You Were Trouble"
reached the top five on charts in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, the U.K.
and the U.S. Three singles, "Begin Again", "22", and "Red", reached the top 20 in the U.S.
Red was released on October 22, 2012. On Red, Swift worked with longtime collaborators
Nathan Chapman and Liz Rose, as well as new producers, including Max
Martin and Shellback. The album incorporates many pop and rock styles such as heartland
rock, dubstep and dance-pop. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first-week
sales of 1.21 million copies, making Swift the first female to have two million-selling album
openings, a record recognized by the Guinness World Records. Red was Swift's first number-
one album in the U.K. The Red Tour ran from March 2013 to June 2014 and grossed over
$150 million, becoming the highest-grossing country tour when it completed.
Red had sold eight million copies by 2014. The album earned several accolades, including
four nominations at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in 2014. Its single "I Knew You Were
Trouble" won Best Female Video at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. Swift received
American Music Awards for Best Female Country Artist in 2012, and Artist of the Year
in 2013. She received the Nashville Songwriters Association's Songwriter/Artist Award for
the fifth and sixth consecutive years in 2012 and 2013. Swift was honored by the Association
with a special Pinnacle Award, making her the second recipient of the accolade after Garth
Brooks. During this time, she had a short-term relationship with English singer Harry Styles.
In 2013, Swift recorded "Sweeter than Fiction", a song she wrote and produced with Jack
Antonoff for the One Chance film soundtrack. The song received a Best Original
Song nomination at the 71st Golden Globe Awards. She provided guest vocals for Tim
McGraw's song "Highway Don't Care", which featured guitar work by Keith Urban. Swift
performed "As Tears Go By" with the Rolling Stones in Chicago, Illinois as part of the
band's 50 & Counting tour. She joined Florida Georgia Line on stage during their set at the
2013 Country Radio Seminar to sing "Cruise". Swift voiced Audrey, a tree lover, in the
animated film The Lorax (2012), made a cameo in the sitcom New Girl (2013), and had a
supporting role in the film adaptation of The Giver (2014).
2021–present: Re-recordings and Midnights

Swift performing as a guest at One More Haim Tour (2022)

Following the masters dispute, Swift released two re-recorded albums in 2021, adding
"Taylor's Version" to their titles. The first, Fearless (Taylor's Version), peaked atop
the Billboard 200, becoming the first re-recorded album to do so. It was preceded by the three
tracks: "Love Story (Taylor's Version)", "You All Over Me" with Maren Morris, and "Mr.
Perfectly Fine", the first of which made Swift the second artist after Dolly Parton to have
both the original and the re-recording of a single reach number one on the Hot Country Songs
chart. The second re-recording Red (Taylor's Version) was released on November 12. Its final
track, "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)"—accompanied by the namesake short
film directed by Swift—debuted at number one on the Hot 100, becoming the longest song in
history to top the chart. She was the highest-paid female musician of 2021, and both her 2020
albums and the re-recordings were ranked among the 10 best-selling albums of the year. In
May 2021, Swift was awarded the Global Icon Award by the Brit Awards and the Songwriter
Icon Award by the National Music Publishers' Association.
Swift further released "Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version)" on September 17, 2021, and
"This Love (Taylor's Version)" on May 6, 2022. Outside her albums, she featured on four
songs from 2021 to 2022: "Renegade" and "Birch" by Big Red Machine, a remix of Haim's
"Gasoline" and Ed Sheeran's "The Joker and the Queen". In 2022, Swift released "Carolina"
as part of the soundtrack of mystery drama film Where the Crawdads Sing, and will appear in
the period comedy film Amsterdam
She won three awards at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards on August 28, 2022, including
the Video of the Year (for All Too Well: The Short Film) for a record-breaking third time. In
her acceptance speech, she announced that she would be releasing her upcoming tenth studio
album on October 21, 2022, and hours later, revealed the title as Midnights
Artistry

Shania Twain (left) and Stevie Nicks (right) have influenced Swift.

One of Swift's earliest memories of music is listening to her grandmother, Marjorie Finlay,
sing in church. As a child, she enjoyed Disney film soundtracks: "My parents noticed that,
once I had run out of words, I would just make up my own." Swift said she owes her
confidence to her mother, who helped her prepare for class presentations as a child. She also
attributes her "fascination with writing and storytelling" to her mother. Swift was drawn to
the storytelling aspect of country music, and was introduced to the genre listening to "the
great female country artists" of the 1990s—Shania Twain, Faith Hill, and the Dixie
Chicks. Twain, both as a songwriter and performer, was her biggest musical influence. Hill
was Swift's childhood role model, and she would often imitate her. She admired the Dixie
Chicks' defiant attitude and their ability to play their own instruments. "Kiss Me"
by Sixpence None the Richer was the first song Swift learned to play on the guitar. Swift also
explored the music of older country stars such as Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Tammy
Wynette, and Dolly Parton, the last of whom she believes is exemplary to female
songwriters, and alt-country artists like Patty Griffin and Lori McKenna. As a songwriter,
Swift was influenced by Joni Mitchell, citing especially how Mitchell's autobiographical
lyrics convey the deepest emotions; "I think [Blue] is my favorite because it explores
somebody's soul so deeply."
Swift has also been influenced by various pop and rock artists. She lists Paul
McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson,
and Carly Simon as her career role models. McCartney, both as a member of The Beatles and
a soloist, makes Swift feel "as if I've been let into his heart and his mind [...] He's out there
continuing to make his fans so happy." She likes Springsteen for remaining musically
relevant for a long time. As she grows older, Swift aspires to be like Harris and prioritize
music over fame. She says that Kristofferson "shines in songwriting", and praised Simon for
being emotional but "strong" at the same time. Her synth-pop album 1989 was influenced by
some of her favorite 1980s pop acts, including Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, Phil Collins,
and Madonna. She has also cited Keith Urban's musical style and Fall Out Boy's lyrics as
major influences.

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