Taylor Alison Swift

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter.
Known for her biographical songwriting, artistic

reinventions, and cultural impact.
Swift signed to Big Machine Records in 2005 starting 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 formats. She experimented with rock on Speak Now (2010) and electronic on Red (2012), later
recalibrating her image from country to pop with the synth-pop album 1989 (2014); the ensuing media scrutiny inspired the hip-
hop-imbued Reputation (2017). The albums contained the 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), explored indie folk styles in the 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore, and subdued pop
genres on Midnights (2022) and The Tortured Poets Department (2024). She began re-recording her Big Machine albums
as Taylor's Version[a] since 2021, due to an ownership dispute with the label. Through the 2020s, she garnered the US number
one songs "Cardigan", "Willow", "All Too Well", "Anti-Hero", "Cruel Summer", "Is It Over Now?", and "Fortnight". 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 is one of the world's best-selling music artists, with a record seven albums that sold over one million copies first-week.
She is the highest-grossing female touring act, the first billionaire with music as primary income, and the world's richest female
musician. She has been listed amongst history's greatest artists by publications such as Rolling Stone, Billboard and Forbes, as
well as the only individual from the arts 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 30 MTV Video Music
Awards; she has won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year and the IFPI
Global Recording Artist of the Year at least four times each. Swift is an advocate of artists'
Taylor Swift's parents have always helped her chase her "Wildest Dreams."
Long before she was a Grammy-winning superstar and the world's highest-paid female entertainer, the "Folklore" singer's
parents were listening to her sing karaoke and driving her to local gigs near her hometown of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.
"She was always singing music when she was 3, 5, 6, 7, years old," her dad, Scott Swift, told UDaily, the newspaper of his
alma mater, the University of Delaware. "It's Taylor doing what she likes to do."
Scott and Andrea Swift have been their daughter's biggest fans since birth, nurturing her talent and passion from a young
age while striving to keep the pressures of fame off of her.
"There would always be an escape hatch into normal life if she decided this wasn't something she had to pursue," Andrea
told Entertainment Weekly in 2008. "And of course that's like saying to her, 'If you want to stop breathing, that's cool.' "
Andrea, a former marketing manager at an advertising agency, married Scott, a stockbroker-turned-vice-president for
Merrill Lynch, on February 20, 1988, in Harris County, Texas. The couple welcomed Taylor on Dec. 13, 1989. Just over two years
later, Taylor became a big sister when her brother Austin was born on March 11, 1992.
The two siblings grew up on a 15-acre Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania before eventually moving to the suburbs of
Nashville after the "Teardrops On My Guitar" singer landed her first major record deal with Sony at age 14.
Within a few years of taking that leap of faith, Taylor made her debut onstage at the Grand Ole Opry as a rising country star
in September 2006. Andrea began to accompany her on the road as her career took off, while Scott stayed home with Austin.
By 2010, Taylor's chart-topping success took her to the Grammys, where she swept up four awards and made history as the
youngest artist ever to take home album of the year for 2008's Fearless. She effusively thanked both her parents for their
support in her acceptance speech, dedicating the award to her dad. "This is for all those times that you said I could do whatever I
wanted in life," she said. "And my mom, you're my best friend."

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

Known for her biographical songwriting, artistic

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