Taylor Swift, whose full name is Taylor Alison Swift, is an American singer as well as songwriter. Swift is best known for her narrative songwriting that often evolves around her personal life, that has received widespread critical praise as well as media coverage. Swift relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 2004, from West Reading, Pennsylvania to pursue a music career. Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house at the age of 14. Swift signed her first record deal when she was 15 years old. Swift’s 2006 eponymous debut studio album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s on the Billboard 200 and its third single, ‘Our Song’, made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number 1 song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Her breakthrough second studio album called Fearless (2008), won 4 Grammy Awards and produced the pop-crossover hit singles ‘Love Story’ as well as ‘You Belong with Me’. In 2009, it became the best-selling album in the US and was certified Diamond by the RIAA.
Taylor’s self-written third studio album called Speak Now (2010), spawned the Grammy-winning single known as ‘Mean’. Swift’s genre-bending fourth studio album, Red (2012), which earned her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’. Taylor’s fifth studio album and first all-pop project, 1989 (2014), which produced the number-one singles ‘Shake It Off, ‘Blank Space’ and also ‘Bad Blood, and won 3 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, making her the first woman to succeed herself at the top spot on the Hot 100 as well as the first woman to win Album of the Year twice as lead artist. Swift’s hiphop inspired sixth studio album, Reputation (2017), which made her the first and only act in music history to have 4 albums each sell one million copies in their first week in the United States and generated her fifth Hot 100 number-one single, ‘Look What You Made Me Do’. Swift’s seventh studio album called Lover (2019), broke the record for the most simultaneous Hot 100 entries by a female artist and became the worldwide best-selling studio album of 2019.
Swift is among the world’s best-selling music artists of all time, after having sold over 50 million albums and 150 million singles globally. Swift’s awards include ten Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award and also seven Guinness World Records. Swift is the most-awarded act and woman at the American Music Awards and Billboard Music Awards. Swift has been included in multiple power rankings; Time’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010, 2015 and 2019, Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time (2015), the Forbes Celebrity 100 where she was placed first in both 2016 and 2019, and Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Artists Chart, she was placed eighth. Swift was named Global Recording Artist of the Year two times by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in 2014 and 2019, Woman of the Decade (2010s) by Billboard and the Artist of the Decade (2010s) by the American Music Awards (AMA).
Age
Taylor Alison was born on December 13th, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania.
Family
Swift’s father is called Scott Kingsley Swift who was a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch while her mother is called Andrea Gardner Swift who was a homemaker who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive. Swift was named after the singer-songwriter James Taylor and her younger brother is called Austin Kingsley Swift who is an actor. Swift’s family moved to a rented house in the suburban town in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.
Joe Alwyn
Swift has not spoken much about Joe Alwyn publicly, but the two are very committed couple that has been together for over three years. Taylor has been purposely silent about her relationship with Alwyn. Taylor largely uses her social media for promoting her work and sharing photos of her other loves like cats Olivia, Meredith and Benjamin. In 2020, Swift and Joe Alwyn have been more public about their love than ever before.
Taylor Swift Me
It is a song by Swift featuring Brendon Urie, the vocalist of Panic at the Disco, which was released on April 26, 2019, via Republic Records.
Taylor Swift Lover
It’s the seventh studio album by Swift, which was released on August 23, 2019, via Republic Records. She enlisted producers Jack Antonoff, Louis Bell, Frank Dukes and Joel Little for the album, as the executive producer. The album is primarily a pop, synth-pop, electropop as well as pop rock record with a retro style, encompassing diverse genres like country, funk, dream pop, folk, rock and roll, R&B, bubblegum pop, pop punk and also indie pop. The album’s music videos and art direction marked a change in her visual appearance, which currently embodies a summer aesthetic, consisting mostly of pastel colors and the album contains collaborations with Brendon Urie and the Dixie Chicks.
