Taylor Alison Swift (Reading (Pennsylvania), December 13, 1989) is an American country singer, musician and actress. In the Netherlands, she was known by the single "Love Story". In Belgium however, was her first big hit "You Belong with Me".
Taylor was born on December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, on a Christmas tree farm. She is the daughter of Andrea Gardner, a homemaker, and Scott Kingsley Swift, a stockbroker, and has a younger brother, Austin. Her grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, was an opera singer.
Then in the fourth grade Sat Swift won a national poetry contest with a three-page long poem "Monster in My Closet". When she was ten taught a computer repairman her three chords on guitar. Afterwards she wrote her first song, "Lucky You". At twelve, Swift spent a whole summer to write a 350-page novel, which never was released. She began writing songs regularly. At school she was bullied, and so she spent her time writing songs that are an outlet for her emotions were. She also began to perform at local festivals and took part in karaoke contests.
Swift regularly went to Nashville, Tennessee, to work with local songwriters. At the age of fourteen, she moved with her family to Nashville, after which she went to school at the Hendersonville High School. The last two years of high degree, she taught at home. In 2008 she received her diploma of secondary education.
Taylor's biggest musical example is Shania Twain, but LeAnn Rimes, Tina Turner, Dolly Parton and Taylor's grandmother had a big influence. She has always sung. At the age of eleven she went for the first time to Nashville where they each label a CD with himself sang karaoke songs emitted, but they came back empty-handed.
Many pointed her by her young age. At the age of fourteen, she became the youngest songwriter ever adopted by Sony / ATV Tree publishing house. On her fifteenth RCA offered her a development deal, which they rejected because they do not own songs should sing. Shortly thereafter she was offered another contract by Scott Borchetta of Big Machine, who had seen her perform in a bar in Nashville.
In 2006, Swift released her debut single "Tim McGraw" from. On 26 October the same year, her debut album "Taylor Swift" from which during the first week 39,000 copies were sold. The second single from that album, "Teardrops on My Guitar", was released on February 24, 2007.
In October 2007, Swift received the award for "Songwriter / Artist of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Assn. Intl. as the youngest artist ever. The third song on her debut album, "Our Song", was six weeks at number one in the country-music charts. In 2007 Taylor released a Christmas album, "Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection", which was sold exclusively at Target.
In 2008 she was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist, but lost it to Amy Winehouse. "Should've Said No" was Swift's second number one hit. In the summer of 2008, she released "Beautiful Eyes" from an EP that was sold only at Wal-Mart. In the first week after the album was released there were 45,000 copies sold.
Taylor's second studio album, "Fearless", was released in the United States on 11 November 2008. With 592,304 copies sold in its first week sales figures of this album higher than the sales figures in the opening week of any other album by a female artist in 2008. The first single from "Fearless", "Love Story" became a hit in both the country charts as the pophitlijsten. "Forever and Always," another song on that album, is based on her relationship with Joe Jonas.
On 19 January 2010 brought Swift "Today was a Fairytale" from the soundtrack to the film Valentine's Day, which she made her acting debut. In July 2010, Billboard revealed that her third album "Speak Now" would be called. It came out on October 25, 2010.
She has written this album themselves. On Wednesday, August 4 2010 leaked the first single "Speak Now", "Mine", from the Internet. Big Machine then decided to call the number back to earlier than planned. "Back to December" she wrote following her, now discontinued, relationship with Twilight actor Taylor Lautner.
Swift's first live album, "Speak Now World Tour: Live", which all seventeen performances from the North American part of her tour to see, came out on 21 november 2011. Swift also announced that they have 25 songs for a provisional untitled album has written that the end of 2012 would come true.
In 2011, Taylor worked with the soundtrack for The Hunger Games, a film based on the book by Suzanne Collins. Her song "Safe and Sound" was the first song from the soundtrack released. She has the song with The Civil Wars written, which she also has opgenomen.Ook them for the movie included another number, called Eyes Open, which she wrote by myself. The performing of these was the CMA as a concert.
According to the music magazine Billboard, the singer with $ 35.7 million in 2011, the highest earning female singer. [1]
Swift currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She also has a house in Beverly Hills, California. Swift began dating in October 2008 with singer Joe Jonas. Jonas ended the relationship over the phone, because he began dating actress Camilla Bell.
Swift's songs: Forever and Always, Last Kiss and Better than Revenge were inspired by her relationship with Jonas. Swift began dating in October 2009 with actor Taylor Lautner. Her song Back to December was for Lautner. Swift also had a relationship with John Mayer. The song "Dear John" is written before. She also had relationships with Jake Gyllenhaal and Eddie Redmayne.
Your favorite artist pictures, videos and more! See your favorite posts:
