TAYLOR SWIFT

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

Taylor Alison Swift (born 13 of th

December of 1989) is an American

singer-songwriter.
Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch; her
mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), was a homemaker who had worked
as a mutual fund marketing executive. Swift, who has said she has Scottish
heritage, was named after the singer-songwriter James Taylor. She has a
younger brother named Austin Kingsley Swift, who is an actor. Swift spent her
early years on a Christmas tree farm, which her father purchased from one of
his clients. She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia
Montessori School, run by the Bernadine Franciscan sisters, before transferring
to The Wyndcroft School. The family moved to a rented house in the suburban
town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended Wyomissing Area
Junior/Senior High School.
At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music
publishing house and, at age 15, she signed her first record deal. Her 2006
eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the
US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-
handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country
Songs chart.

Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop
crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it
became the US's best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the
US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest
Album of the Year winner.
Swift was the sole writer of her 2010 album Speak Now, which won two
Grammy Awards and was her first to debut with over a million copies sold in
the first week in the US. Her fourth album, Red (2012), yielded her first Billboard
Hot 100 number-one single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together". For
her fifth album and first all-pop project, 1989 (2014), she won three Grammy
Awards, including Album of the Year, and became the first woman to replace
herself at number one on the Hot 100, with the singles "Shake It Off" and
"Blank Space". Her sixth album, Reputation (2017), made her the only act to
have four consecutive albums each sell one million copies in their first week in
the US, while yielding her fifth Hot 100 number-one song, with "Look What You
Made Me Do". With her seventh album, Lover (2019), she became the second
woman to achieve six consecutive number-one albums on the Billboard 200.
Having sold more than 50 million albums—including 37 million in the US, Swift
is one of the world's best-selling music artists and the highest-earning female
musician of the 2010s. She has won 10 Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, six
Guinness world records and is the most-awarded act at the American Music
Awards with 29 wins, and most-awarded woman at the Billboard Music Awards
with 23 wins.

As a songwriter, Swift has been honored by the Songwriters Hall of Fame and
was included in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time list in
2015. She appeared in Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the
world in 2010, 2015 and 2019 and was ranked first in the Forbes Celebrity 100
in 2016 and 2019. In 2019, Swift placed at number eight on Billboard's list of
greatest artists of all time—the highest for an act that debuted in the 21st
century—and was named Woman of the Decade by the magazine and Artist of
the Decade by the American Music Awards.