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Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter who was born on December 13, 1989.. Known for her autobiographical songwriting, artistic reinvention, and cultural impact, she is the highest-grossing live music performer, the richest female musician, and one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Swift signed with Big Machine Records in 2005 and debuted as a country singer with the albums Taylor Swift (2006) and Fearless (2008).
Her singles “Teardrops on My Guitar,” “Love Story,” and “You Belong with Me” found crossover success on country and pop radio.
Speak Now (2010) expanded her country-pop sound with rock influences, and Red (2012) featured a pop-friendly performance. She transitioned her artistic identity from country to pop with the country-pop album 1989 (2014). Subsequently, media scrutiny inspired the hip-hop-influenced Reputation (2017). In the 2010s, she accumulated the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles “We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together”, “Shake It Off”, “Blank Space”, “Bad Blood”, and “Look What You Made Me Do”. After signing with Republic Records in 2018, Swift released the economic pop album Lover (2019), the indie folk albums Folk and Evermore (both 2020), the electropop record Midnights (2022), and the double album
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In the 2020s, she re-recorded four of her Big Machine albums due to a dispute with the label and released the US number-one singles “Cardigan”, “Willow”, “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)”, “Anti-Hero”, “Cruel Summer”, “Is It Over Now?” Alison Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania.[1] She is named after singer-songwriter James Taylor;[2] her parents chose a unisex name, hoping it would help her succeed in business.
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.[4] Swift’s younger brother, Austin, is an actor.[5] The siblings are of Scottish, English, and German descent, with distant Italian and Irish ancestry.[6][7][8] Her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay (née Moehlenkamp), was an opera singer, whose church singing became one of Swift’s earliest musical memories.[9] During her childhood, Swift spent her holidays at a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania. She spent her childhood,[10] and summers at her family’s vacation home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, where she occasionally sang acoustic songs at a local coffee shop.
Raised in a Christian family, she attended preschool and kindergarten at a Montessori school run by the Bernardine Sisters of St.
Francis before transferring to Windcroft School in Pottstown.[13][14] When her family moved to Wyomissing, she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.[15][16] At the age of nine, she aspired to a career in musical theatre, performing in local festivals and productions of the Berks Youth Theatre Academy,[17][18] and regularly traveling to New York City for singing and acting lessons.[19][20] After watching a documentary about Faith Hill, she shifted her focus and became determined to pursue a country music career in Nashville, Tennessee.
2004–2008: Career beginnings at Sony/ATV Tree Music Publishing Swift signed with Sony/ATV Tree Music Publishing in 2004; at age 14
she became the youngest member in the publishing company’s history.[31] In Nashville, she worked with experienced Music Row songwriters, including Liz Rose.[32][33] Rose and Swift wrote songs every Tuesday afternoon after school.[34] After a year of the development deal, she left RCA Records, which decided to keep her in development until she turned 18.[35] Swift made this decision because she wanted to release the songs immediately, ensuring they still resonated with her teenage experiences.[36] Swift held a showcase concert at the Bluebird Cafe on November 3, 2004; Among those present was Scott Borchetta, a music executive who was planning to establish an independent record label, Big Machine Records.
Two weeks after the concert, she signed a recording contract with Big Machine, on the condition that she would write her own albums
her father bought a three percent stake in the company.[40] The contract was finalized until July 2005, when Swift ended her working relationship with Dymtro.[41] She spent four months recording her debut album, Taylor Swift, with producer Nathan Chapman in late 2005.
2008–2010: Unafraid to Do All Over Swift’s second studio album
Fearless, was released on November 11, 2008, in North America and in March 2009 in other markets. It was the best-selling album of 2009 in the US. [64] [64] [64] [64] [64] It reached the top five and peaked at the top of the Hot Country Songs chart. [66] In 2009, Swift opened for Keith Urban and embarked on her first headline tour.
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