Taylor Alison Swift

Name : Taylor Alison Swift

Birth Date : December 13, 1989

Place : Wyomissing, Pennsylvania

Profession : American country music singer-songwriter.

Taylor Swift lives with her parents, Scott and Andrea, and her brother, Austin in Henderson ville, Tennessee. Taylor Swift’s influences include her grandmother and LeAnn Rimes. Although her grandmother was a professional opera singer, her tastes always ran more toward country and she developed a love for Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton at an early age. She also credits the Dixie Chicks and Shania Twain for demonstrating how much impact can be made by stretching boundaries. At the age of 10, Swift began to perform around her home town, Wyomissing, singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs, and also started writing songs. Her first exposure to the music business consisted of recording demo tapes at a studio. At age 11, Swift made her first trip to Nashville in hopes of obtaining 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. After Swift returned to Pennsylvania; her break came at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, when her rendition of the national anthem moved the crowd. Swift signed to a record label when she was 13 years old, but walked away because it “wasn’t where she wanted to be.

Swift began to regularly visit Nashville, where, at age 12, she wrote songs with local songwriters. Eventually, her family decided to move to an outlying Nashville suburb. Taylor Swift performed at Nashville’s premier songwriters’ café, The Bluebird Café, catching the attention of Scott Borchetta who signed her to his newly-formed record label, Big Machine Records. Swift plays a Taylor Grand Auditorium acoustic guitar made of koa wood.

Swift’s debut single, “Tim McGraw”, was released in Summer 2006

October 24, 2006, her self-titled album was released. Swift wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album, which debuted at #19 on the Billboard 200 and sold more than 61,000 during its first week. It was later at #1 at Billboard Top Country Albums and #5 at Billboard 200. It also spent eight consecutive weeks at the top of the Top Country Albums charts, and has since sold over two million copies. Swift has surpassed the 20 million mark for music streams on MySpace.

On May 15, 2007, Swift performed “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. On August 21, 2007, Swift performed live on the season finale of America’s Got Talent.

In October 2007, Swift’s songwriting peers at the Nashville Songwriters Association International honored her with their Songwriter/Artist of the Year Award, making her the youngest artist ever to win the award.

Awards 2008

Taylor Swift won the CMT Awards for : Female Video of the Year: “Our Song” and Video of the Year: “Our Song”