Taylor Swift

Name: Taylor Swift
Date of Birth: December 13, 1989
Place of Birth: Reading, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography: Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is a Platinum-selling, American country music singer-songwriter. In 2006, she had her first hit at 16, "Tim McGraw", about a summer love. Since then, she h...( read more

)as risen to fame, with an especially large Internet following. She has a soft and clean voice that appeals to many country music fans.

She won CMT's "Breakthrough Video of the Year" award in 2007 for her hit "Tim McGraw", and was also nominated by the Academy of Country Music for "Top New Female Vocalist".

Taylor Swift was born in Reading, PA. Swift's influences include her grandmother, who was a singer, and LeAnn Rimes. At the age of ten, Swift began to perform around her hometown, Wyomissing, singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs. Her first exposure to the music business consisted of recording demo tapes at a studio. At age 11, Taylor made her first trip to Nashville in hopes of attaining 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. Taylor returned to Pennsylvania without a record deal but remained confident in her ability, writing her first song, "Lucky You". Her big break came at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, when her rendition of the national anthem moved the crowd. Her favorite color is white and her favorite place to be is anywhere near a creek. Within a few months she was featured as a rising star in an Abercrombie & Fitch campaign. In Nashville she wrote songs with local songwriters. The family decided to move to Hendersonville, Tennessee, an outlying Nashville suburb. When she performed at Nashville's premier songwriters' cafe, The Bluebird Café, she caught the attention of Scott Borchetta. Scott signed her to his new label, Big Machine Records.

Swift's first single, "Tim McGraw", was released to radio in Summer of 2006. The video debuted in July 2006 on Great American Country. On October 24, 2006, her self-titled CD was released.

The CD, on which Swift wrote or co-wrote all of the songs, peaked at #19 on the sales charts and sold more than 61,000 during its first week. During the Summer of 2007, her debut album spent eight consecutive weeks at #1 on the Top Country Albums Chart. The song "Tim McGraw" peaked at #6 on the chart week of January 27, 2007. The video set a record by appearing for 30 consecutive weeks on GAC's fan-voted weekly Top 20 music countdown show, and the video reached #1 on CMT's video charts.

Since her success, she has appeared on Good Morning America and at the 2006 Academy of Country Music Awards. She also won "Breakthrough Video of the Year" on the 2007 CMT Music Awards with "Tim McGraw". Her pursuit of country music stardom was the subject of "GAC Short Cuts", a part-documentary, part-music video series airing since the summer of 2006 on the country music channel Great American Country.

Swift sang the national anthem and performed at various events since then. One of her biggest mainstream performances was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on February 13, 2007, where she performed her single, "Tim McGraw." Swift also appeared on Ellen, singing "Our Song." On May 15, 2007, Swift performed her Gold single, "Tim McGraw," at the Academy of Country Music Awards. She sang the song to Tim McGraw in the audience, and introduced herself for the first time to him. Taylor has been an opening act for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill on their Soul2Soul 2007 tour. She is currently touring with Brad Paisley and has opened in the past for George Strait and Rascal Flatts as well.

More recently, she was named a presenter and performer at the prestigious American Women in Radio and Television event in New York in June 2007. Her second album is about to be recorded and planned for a 2008 release, the same year she is scheduled to graduate high school through her home-school program.

On August 30, Taylor was named one of 5 nominees for the 2007 CMA Horizon Award. The CMA Awards will be televised on November 6.

Taylor is one of the first country music artists to use the Internet as a primary source of communication, such as her Myspace, which has over 26,000,000 music plays. She has directed much of her attention to her "Myspace friends" and attracts younger audiences because she is young herself.

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Comments

sk8aiterGirl

I love your CD and i hope you come out with a new one ill be the first to buy it

posted 2 days ago
BringDannyBack

i LOVE ur music, it rox my sox =) haha
but siskiu what do u mean she's way better than carrie?!?

posted 9 days ago
craftdiva61

i love taylor swifts music. i sang our song at the talent show and everyone said i sounded great

posted 10 days ago
siskiu

taylor is the best singer in the world!...my best friend can play all of your songs on her guitar...you are sooo pretty...u are way better than Carrie

posted 10 days ago
cassrocks

she is so talented lol

posted 11 days ago
Twisted67

'our song' is SOO addicting, both listening 2 it and singing it :)

posted 13 days ago
anastassiakopteva

I love your songs so much! I have most of them on my ipod. My favorite is Teardrops on my guitar. Can you please add me as a friend? You rock!

posted 13 days ago
americangirlja

Hey breanna125 shut the hell up you bitch we all know that.
Taylor Swift rocks her songs are the best.

posted 18 days ago
breannal25

you all are so stupid somebody famous isn't going to write to you!! you all are so fricken stupid!!!!!!!!!
i am a fan but i know she won't add me or read this.
my favorite song is Picture To Burn.

posted 28 days ago
softballchickash

oh my gosh i can't belive im actually possibly writing to you!! And who knew we had the same b-day!!(different yrs though) my younger cuz was the one who got me to listen to your music and don't reget it add me and write back if you can YOU ROCK AND PEACE OUT!!!!!

posted 30 days ago