Her Childhood —
Taylor Swift was born in Pennsylvania, USA. Her father’s name is Scott Swift, a stock trader by profession. Swift’s mother’s name is Andrew who was a house wife. Swift has a younger brother, Austin who is an actor. She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School run by the Bernadine Franciscan sisters, When Swift was in fourth grade, she once won a prize for reciting poetry at the national level. The poem she recited was three pages long and was entitled “Monster in My Closet”. She spent her early years on a Christmas tree farm that her father purchased from one of his clients. Canadian country musician Shanaya Twain Taylor influenced Swift the most. Her grandmother was a professional opera artist. Taylor’s interest in country music continued to grow and she was a big fan of the famous country musician Patsy Klein. When Swift was around 12 years old, computer repairman and local musician Ronnie Cremer taught her to play guitar She then composed her first song “Lucky You”. She wrote songs regularly. She saw this as a way to show reluctance towards his school. Swift also wrote songs about them so that other children would not misbehave with her.
Her Music Career —
Taylor Swift released her first song, “Tim McGraw” in 2006, which won number six on the Billboard Hot Country Song chart. Taylor Swift is the self-titled debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on October 24, 2006, through Big Machine Records. 39,000 copies were sold in its first week of release.
Swift’s latest studio album “Fearless” was released in the United States on November 11, 2008. Upon release, the album topped the Billboard 200 album list. The album has sold 592,304 copies, more than any other country music artist’s album released in 2008. The album sold 129,000 copies on the Internet in its first week of release. This was the highest sales of any country music album online.
She released other 7 studio Albums such as Speak Now (2010), Red (2012), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017), Lover (2019), Folklore (2020), Evermore (2020) and Re-recordings Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (2021) and Red (Taylor’s Version) (2021). Apart from this 13 extended plays, 3 live albums and 2 compilations albums with estimated sales.
She also released 4 video albums, 57 music video, five films and 3 television shows.
Her notable filmographies are Valentine’s Day (2010), The Lorax (2012), The Giver (2014), Cats (2019), Miss Americana (2020), Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020)
She performed on five concerts tours, four one-off concerts, 21 music festival and 195 live events.