Are you aware of this young, talented American song-singer and writer? She is one of the world’s leading contemporary recording artists; well known for narrating songs about her personal life.
Who is Taylor Swift?
Taylor Swift is a beautiful singer, songwriter, and actress. She is a country’s pop star who is living in every teenager’s dream. Taylor is the only female artist who has won two ‘Album of the Year’ awards at the Grammy’s.
Taylor Swift has won several awards as a vocalist in 23 ‘Billboard Music Awards’, 11 ‘Country Music Awards’, 8 ‘Academy of Country Music Awards’, 19 ‘American Music Awards’, 1 ‘Brit Awards’ and an ‘Emmy Award’.
With her songwriting skills, she found a place for herself on ‘The Songwriters Hall of Fame’.
Her Early Life
Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania. Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch, and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), was a homemaker who had worked as a mutual fund marketing executive.
Swift was named after the American singer-songwriter James Taylor.
With a younger brother Austin, Swift spent the early years of her life on a Christmas tree farm her father purchased from one of his clients.
She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by Franciscan nuns, before transferring to The Wyndcroft School.
The family then moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.
At the age of 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 her weekends performing at local festivals and events. After watching a documentary about Faith Hill, Swift felt sure that she needed to go to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a music career.
At the age of eleven, she traveled with her mother to visit Nashville record labels and submitted a demo tape of Dolly Parton and Dixie Chicks karaoke covers.
Swift’s Rising
She was rejected since “everyone in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania wanted what she wanted. So, I kept thinking to myself, I need to figure out a way to be different”, She said.
When Swift was about 12 years old, computer repairman and local musician Ronnie Cremer taught her how to play guitar and helped with her first efforts as a songwriter, leading to her writing “Lucky You”. In 2003, Swift and her parents started working with New York-based music 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 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 the Nashville office of Merrill Lynch when she was 14, and the family relocated to a lakefront house in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Swift attended Hendersonville High School, but after two years transferred to the Aaron Academy, which through homeschooling could accommodate her touring schedule, and she graduated a year early.
Taylor Swift Emerges in 2004–2008; Her Career Kickoff
In Nashville, Swift worked with experienced Music Row songwriters such as Troy Verges, Brett Beavers, Brett James, Mac McAnally, and The Warren Brothers.
She eventually formed a lasting working relationship with Liz Rose.
They began meeting for two-hour writing sessions every Tuesday afternoon after school. Rose thought that the sessions were “some of the easiest I’ve ever done”.
Basically, I was just her editor. She’d write about what happened in school that day.
She had such a clear vision of what she was trying to say. And she’d come in with the most incredible hooks”.
Swift was signed by the Sony/ATV Tree publishing house but left RCA Records when she was 14. She later recalled: “I genuinely felt that I was running out of time.
I wanted to capture these years of my life on an album while they still represented what I was going through”.
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Taylor Swift’s Professional Career
Taylor worked with famous songwriters such as Troy Verges, Brett Beavers, Liz Rose, and The Warren Rose in Hendersonville Tennessee.
At the age of 14, Swift left RCA Records as she wanted to pursue her character as soon as possible.
She caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, an executive of Dream Works Record at an industry showcase at Nashville in 2005.
Taylor was the first person to be signed to the Big Machine Records, an independent record label of Scott Borchetta.On 24 October 2006, she released her first album with her own name “Taylor Swift” at the age of 16. The album peaked at the number five on the Billboard 200 and marked the longest stay.
She won many awards and she released her second album “Fearless” on 11 November 2008 with the lead single “Love Story”.
It was at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. Taylor did her first concert-tour Fearless Tour, which earned over $63 million.
Taylor Swift released both ‘Stripped raw & Real’, ‘Speak Now’ in 2010, ‘Red’ in 2012 and ‘1989’ in 2014. Swift has nominated over 50 awards and won 15 awards.
She made an acting debut from the TV drama called CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Her debut movie “Valentine’s Day” was released in 2009.
Taylor recorded her name in the Guinness World Record is the first female to have two million-selling album openings.
Net Worth and Salary
According to Forbes, as of 2017, Taylor Swift has $280 million net worth. In 2017, she earned $6,000,000 from her album “Red”.
She earned $44 million in 2016. In 2017, she had estimated earnings of $259,700,000 from her ‘The 1989 Tour World’.
The value of penthouse in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood that she bought from ‘Lord of the Ring’s director Peter Jackson is $20,000,000. Her current Net Worth is $266 million.
Personal Life
Taylor Swift is in a relationship with Joe Alwyn, an English actor. In 2008, Swift dated American actor/singer Joseph Jonas and the couple broke up in three months.
She dated her co-actor Taylor Lautner in 2009 but in the same year they broke up.
In 2010, Taylor shortly dated Jake Gyllenhaal.
She has dated British actor/singer Harry Styles from December 2012 to January 2013. Swift dated Scottish DJ and record producer Calvin Harris from March 2015-June 2016.
Then, she dated Tom Hiddleston from June 2016-September 2016.
Social Media Profile
Taylor Swift is active on social networking sites-Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
She has 109.7 million and 85.5 million followers on Instagram and Facebook respectively. Taylor has 73,128,164 likes and 69,518,642 followers on Facebook.
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