Taylor Alison Swift was born to Andrea Gardner Swift and Scott

Kingsley Swift on 13th December, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Her father was a stockbroker, while her mother was a homemaker
who brought up Taylor and her younger brother, Austin. Her first
hobby was riding a horse, and won many races. Her grandmother had
been a professional opera singer, and Swift soon followed in her
footsteps. By the age of 10, Swift was singing at a variety of local
events, including fairs and contests. She sang "The Star-Spangled
Banner" at a Philadelphia 76ers basketball game at the age of 11, and
began writing her own songs “lucky you” and learning guitar at 12 years
old, the computer repairman who taught her a few chords of guitar.
To pursue her music career, Swift often visited Nashville, Tennessee,
the country music capital. There she co-wrote songs and tried to land a
recording contract. Noting her dedication, Swift and her family moved to
nearby Hendersonville, Tennessee, in an attempt to further Swift's
career.
A stellar performance at The Bluebird Café in Nashville helped Swift get
a contract with Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Records. She released
her first single, "Tim McGraw," in 2006, and the song became a Top 10
hit on the country charts. It also appeared on her self-titled debut album
in October of that same year, which went on to sell more than 5 million
copies. More popular singles soon followed, including "Our Song," a No.
1 country music hit. "Teardrops on My Guitar," "Picture to Burn" and
"Should've Said No" were also successful tracks.

In 2008, Swift was nominated for a Grammy in the Best New Artist
category and won other accolades, including the ACM's Female
Vocalist of the Year Award. Around this same time, Swift released her
next album, Fearless, which hit the top of both the country and pop
charts and stayed there for 11 weeks. By the end of the year, Swift had
become the highest-selling country artist of 2008

That year Swift also won the MTV Video Music Award's Best Female
Video, for "You Belong With Me," making her the first country music star
to earn a VMA. The win stirred controversy when rapper Kanye
Westleaped to the stage during Swift's speech, took the microphone
and declared that R&B singer Beyoncé should have won Swift's award.
Her concert tickets began selling out in less than two minutes, and she
also made her second appearance on the comedy show Saturday Night
Live, this time as both the host and musical guest. Additionally, in 2010
she became the youngest artist to win the Grammy Award for Album of
the Year, for Fearless.
Her third album Speak Now that release on October 2010, that she
wrote all the songs by herself. The album was a success, debuting at
No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and selling more than 1 million copies
in its first week. She followed with Red (2012), also topped 1 million in
its first week of sales.
In 2013, Swift was also honored with the CMA Pinnacle Award for her
achievements as a country music performer and for her "positive
impact" on country music, according to the CMA website.
She released 1989, her most pop-sounding record to date, in October
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In an age of low album sales, 1989 moved more than 1.2 million copies
in its first week, making Swift the first artist to top the 1 million mark in
opening-week sales for three albums.
In late August 2017, using an image of a snake, Swift revealed that she
would release her sixth studio album, reputation, in November. The
image of a snake is a reference to when Kim Kardashian called Swift
a "snake" on Twitter in 2016, after Swift denied that she granted
Kanye West permission to use her name in his song "Famous.
Swift debuted the first single, "Look What You Made Me Do," on
August 24. In the music video, Swift played characters of all her
misrepresentations. The video had more than 43.2 million views on
YouTube within the first day.
reputation sold 1.05 million copies in the U.S. over its first four days.
Along with giving the artist her fourth consecutive album to surpass 1
million in sales for its opening week, that total made reputation the
top-selling album of 2017.