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aylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Known
for her autobiographical songwriting and artistic reinventions, Swift is an influential
figure in popular culture and the subject of widespread public interest.

Swift signed with Big Machine Records in 2005, starting as a country pop singer with
her first two albums Taylor Swift (2006) and Fearless (2008). Their singles "Teardrops
on My Guitar", "Love Story", and "You Belong with Me" were crossover successes
on country and pop radio formats. She experimented with rock on Speak Now (2010)
and electronic on Red (2012), recalibrated her image from country to pop with
the synth-pop album 1989 (2014), and the ensuing media scrutiny inspired the hip-hop-
imbued Reputation (2017); the albums contained the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-
one singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", "Shake It Off", "Blank Space",
"Bad Blood", and "Look What You Made Me Do".

Shifting to Republic Records in 2018, Swift released the electropop album Lover (2019)
and the autobiographical documentary Miss Americana (2020). She explored indie
folk styles on the 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore and subdued pop genres
on Midnights (2022) and The Tortured Poets Department (2024) and re-recorded four of
her albums subtitled (Taylor's Version)[a] after an ownership dispute with Big Machine.
The albums garnered the U.S. number-one songs "Cruel Summer", "Cardigan",
"Willow", "All Too Well", "Anti-Hero", "Is It Over Now?", and "Fortnight" in the 2020s. Her
sixth concert tour, the Eras Tour (2023–2024), and its accompanying concert film are
respectively the highest-grossing tour and concert film of all time; Swift became the first
billionaire with music as the main source of income and the highest-grossing female
touring act.

Swift is one of the world's best-selling music artists with estimated global sales of 200
million records. Seven of her albums have opened with over one million pure sales in a
week. She has appeared on lists of history's greatest artists from publications such
as Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Forbes and is the only artist to have been named
the Time Person of the Year (2023). Her accolades include 14 Grammy Awards,
a Primetime Emmy Award, 40 American Music Awards, 39 Billboard Music Awards, and
23 MTV Video Music Awards; she has won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year,
the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year, and the IFPI Global Recording Artist
of the Year a record four times each.
Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania,
United States.[1] She is named after singer-songwriter James Taylor.[2] Her father, Scott
Kingsley Swift, was a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch, and her mother, Andrea Gardner
Swift (née Finlay), worked as a mutual fund marketing executive briefly.[3] Swift's
younger brother, Austin, would become an actor.[4] Their maternal grandmother, Marjorie
Finlay (née Moehlenkamp), was an opera singer,[5] whose singing in church became one
of Swift's earliest memories of music that shaped her career.[3] The siblings are of
Scottish, English, and German descent, with distant Italian and Irish ancestry.[6][7][8]

Swift spent her early years on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania that her father had
purchased from one of his clients,[9] and she spent her summers at her family's vacation
home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, where she occasionally performed acoustic songs
at a local coffee shop.[10] She is a Christian[11] and attended preschool and kindergarten
at a Montessori school run by the Bernardine Sisters of St. Francis before transferring to
the Wyndcroft School.[12][13] When her family moved to Wyomissing, she
attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.[14][15] As a child, she performed in
Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions[16] and traveled regularly to New York City for
vocal and acting lessons.[17] Her early love for country music was influenced by Shania
Twain, Patsy Cline, LeAnn Rimes, and the Dixie Chicks,[13] and she spent weekends
performing at local festivals and events.[18][19] After watching a documentary about Faith
Hill, she became determined to pursue a country-music career in Nashville, Tennessee.
[20]

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