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Taylor Swift Profile |
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Birth Date: December 13, 1989
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Birth Place: Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
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Birth Name: Taylor Alison Swift
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Height: 5'11"
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Biography |
Taylor Swift is an American country music singer-songwriter.
Signed to the independent Big Machine Records label in 2006,
Taylor made her debut on the U.S. Billboard country charts
with the release of her debut single "Tim McGraw".
Her self-titled debut album was released in late 2006, and
has since been certified triple platinum by the RIAA in the
United States. As of June 21, 2008 the album has sold
3,021,703 copies in the U.S and it has produced five Top Ten
singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs, including
two Number One singles with "Our Song" and "Should've Said
No"; all five of her singles have also reached Top 40 on the
Billboard Hot 100. The album was re-issued in 2007 with a
set of bonus tracks.
She is now preparing to release her sophomore album Fearless
on November 11th.
Taylor Swift lives with her parents, Scott and Andrea, and
her brother, Austin, in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Swift's
influences include her grandmother and LeAnn Rimes. Although
her grandmother was a professional opera singer, Taylor's
tastes always ran more toward country and she developed a
love for Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton at an early age. She
also credits the Dixie Chicks and Shania Twain for
demonstrating how much impact can be made by "stretching
boundaries". At the age of ten, Swift began to perform
around her home town, Wyomissing, singing at karaoke
contests, festivals, and fairs, and also started writing
songs. Her first exposure to the music business consisted of
recording demo tapes at a studio. At age 11, Swift made her
first trip to Nashville in hopes of obtaining a record deal
by handing out a demo tape she had made of her singing along
to karaoke songs. She handed this tape to receptionists at
every label on Music Row. After Swift returned to
Pennsylvania, she was asked to sing at the U.S. Open tennis
tournament, when her rendition of the national anthem moved
the crowd. Swift signed to a record label when she was 13
years old, but walked away because it "wasn't where she
wanted to be."
Swift began to regularly visit Nashville, where, at age 12,
she wrote songs with local songwriters. Eventually, her
family decided to move to an outlying Nashville suburb.
Taylor Swift performed at Nashville's premier songwriters'
café, The Bluebird Café, catching the attention of Scott
Borchetta who signed her to his newly-formed record label,
Big Machine Records.
Swift plays a Taylor Grand Auditorium acoustic guitar made
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Other
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Is from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania
The love interest in her song, "Tim McGraw", is named
Johnny.
Taught herself to play guitar.
Has a little brother named Austin.
With her first No. 1 song "Our Song," at age 18 years and 9
days, became the fifth teenaged female singer to top the
Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs chart. The others were
Jean Shepard (19 years, 9 months in August 1953 with "A Dear
John Letter"), Tanya Tucker (14 years, 7 months in May 1973
with "What's Your Mama's Name"), Marie Osmond (14 years, 1
month in November 1973 with "Paper Roses") and LeAnn Rimes
(14 years, 4 months in December 1996 with "One Way Ticket
(Because I Can)").
Ranked #57 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
Good friend of Kellie Pickler. |
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since August 21, 2008