Taylor Swift

Extracted Attributes

• Father

  Scott Kingsley Swift (stockbroker)

• Genres

  Country, Pop, Indie Folk, Electropop, Soft Rock

• Mother

  Andrea Gardner Swift (mutual fund marketing executive/homemaker)

• Education

  Hendersonville High School

• Known For

  Autobiographical songwriting, artistic reinventions

• Occupation

  Singer-songwriter

• Nationality

  American

• Fanbase Name

  Swifties

• Date of Birth

  1989-12-13

• Grammy Awards

  14 (including a record 4 Album of the Year wins)

• Place of Birth

  West Reading, Pennsylvania, United States

• Time Person of the Year

  2023

• Wealthiest Female Musician

  Yes

• Highest-Grossing Live Music Artist

  Yes

• IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year

  5 times

Timeline

• Born Taylor Alison Swift in West Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. (Source: summary, wikipedia, wikidata, web_search_results)

  1989-12-13

• Began to write music and play the guitar at age 12. (Source: web_search_results)

  2001-12-13

• Family moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to help her pursue a music career at age 13. (Source: web_search_results)

  2002-12-13

• Noticed by Scott Borchetta, an executive from Big Machine Records, during a showcase at The Bluebird Café. (Source: web_search_results)

  2004-01-01

• Signed with Big Machine Records. (Source: wikipedia, web_search_results)

  2005-01-01

• Released her debut single "Tim McGraw" and first album "Taylor Swift", which rose to No. 3 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. (Source: wikipedia, web_search_results)

  2006-01-01

• Named the youngest person to be honored with the BMI Songwriter of the Year title. (Source: web_search_results)

  2007-01-01

• Named Best New Artist by the Country Music Association. (Source: web_search_results)

  2007-01-01

• Released EP "The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection". (Source: web_search_results)

  2007-10-01

• Released EP "Beautiful Eyes". (Source: web_search_results)

  2008-07-01

• Released her second album "Fearless", which debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 Chart. (Source: wikipedia, web_search_results)

  2008-11-11

• Released album "Speak Now", expanding her country pop sound. (Source: wikipedia)

  2010-10-25

• Released album "Red", featuring a more pop-friendly production. (Source: wikipedia)

  2012-10-22

• Released the synth-pop album "1989", marking her transition from country to pop music. (Source: wikipedia)

  2014-10-27

• Named Billboard's Woman of the Year. (Source: web_search_results)

  2014-01-01

• Won three Grammy Awards for "1989", including Album of the Year, becoming the first woman and fifth act overall to win Album of the Year twice as a lead artist. (Source: web_search_results)

  2016-02-15

• Released the hip-hop-imbued album "Reputation". (Source: wikipedia)

  2017-11-10

• Signed with Republic Records. (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  2018-01-01

• Released the eclectic pop album "Lover". (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  2019-08-23

• Released the indie folk album "Folklore". (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  2020-07-24

• Released the indie folk album "Evermore". (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  2020-12-11

• Released the electropop record "Midnights". (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  2022-10-21

• Named Time Person of the Year, the first individual from the arts to receive this honor. (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  2023-01-01

• Her concert film, "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour", became the highest-grossing concert film in history. (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  2023-10-13

• Her 2023–2024 Eras Tour became the first concert tour to gross over $1 billion. (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  2023-03-17

• Won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for "Midnights", becoming the first artist to win in that category four times. (Source: web_search_results)

  2024-02-04

• Released the double album "The Tortured Poets Department". (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  2024-04-19

• Began re-recording her early albums due to a contract dispute with her former label. (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  2020-01-01

Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. An influential figure in popular culture, she is known for her autobiographical songwriting and artistic reinventions. Swift is the highest-grossing live music artist, the wealthiest female musician, and one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Swift signed with Big Machine Records in 2005 and debuted as a country singer with the albums Taylor Swift (2006) and Fearless (2008). The singles "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Love Story", and "You Belong with Me" found crossover success on country and pop radio formats. Speak Now (2010) expanded her country pop sound with rock influences, and Red (2012) featured a pop-friendly production. She recalibrated her artistic identity from country to pop with the synth-pop album 1989 (2014); ensuing media scrutiny inspired the hip-hop-imbued Reputation (2017). Through the 2010s, she accumulated the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", "Bad Blood", and "Look What You Made Me Do". After Swift signed with Republic Records in 2018, she released the eclectic pop album Lover (2019), the indie folk albums Folklore and Evermore (both 2020), the electropop record Midnights (2022), the double album The Tortured Poets Department (2024), and the soft rock-tinged The Life of a Showgirl (2025). In the 2020s, she re-recorded four of her Big Machine albums due to a dispute with the label and garnered the US number-one singles "Cardigan", "Willow", "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)", "Anti-Hero", "Cruel Summer", "Is It Over Now?", and "Fortnight". Her 2023–2024 concert tour, the Eras Tour, is the first to gross $1 billion in revenue. Its accompanying concert film, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023), became the highest-grossing in history. Swift is the only artist to have been named the IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year five times. A record seven of her albums have each sold over a million copies first-week in the US. Publications such as Rolling Stone and Billboard have ranked Swift among the greatest artists of all time. She is the first individual from the arts to be named Time Person of the Year (2023). Her accolades include 14 Grammy Awards—including a record four Album of the Year wins—and a Primetime Emmy Award. Swift is the most-awarded artist of the American Music Awards, the Billboard Music Awards, and the MTV Video Music Awards. A subject of extensive media coverage, she has a global fanbase known as Swifties.

Web Search Results

• Taylor Swift - Wikipedia

  Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. An influential figure in popular culture, she is known for her autobiographical songwriting and artistic reinventions. Swift is the highest-grossing live music artist, the wealthiest female musician, and one of the best-selling music artists of all time. [...] Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania. She is named after the singer-songwriter James Taylor; her parents chose a unisex name, hoping it would help her succeed in business. Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch, and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), worked as a mutual fund marketing executive. Swift's younger brother, Austin, is an actor. The siblings are of Scottish, English, and German descent, with [...] Primetime Emmy Award. Swift is the most-awarded artist of the American Music Awards, the Billboard Music Awards, and the MTV Video Music Awards. A subject of extensive media coverage, she has a global fanbase known as Swifties.

• Taylor Swift | Songs, Engaged, Albums, Travis Kelce, Life of a ...

  Taylor Swift (born December 13, 1989, West Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is a multitalented singer-songwriter and global superstar who has captivated audiences with her heartfelt lyrics and catchy melodies, solidifying herself as one of the most influential artists in contemporary music. In 2024 she made history when she won the Grammy Award for album of the year for Midnights (2022), becoming the first artist to win in that category four times. Later that year she broke the record for the [...] Taylor Swift is considered one of the most influential artists in contemporary country and pop music. In 2007 she was named the best new artist by the Country Music Association. In 2023 she was named Spotify’s most-played artist, and in 2024 she became the first person to win the Grammy Award for album of the year four times. In 2024 her Eras Tour broke the record for the highest-grossing concert tour, having earned $2 billion. ### Where is Taylor Swift from?

• Life and Career | Taylor Swift Museum

  Taylor Alison Swift is a singer-songwriter born on December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania. Her father, Scott Swift, is a stockbroker; her mother, Andrea Swift, is a homemaker who previously worked as a fund marketing executive; and her brother, Austin, is an actor. Swift spent her early years on a Christmas tree farm with her parents. [...] Swift was named Billboard's Woman of the Year in 2014, and at the 2014 American Music Awards, she received the inaugural Dick Clark Award for Excellence. During this era, Swift also won a BRIT, several VMAs, and multiple other accolades which solidified the 1989 era as the most awarded pop era of all time. At the 58th Grammy Awards in 2016, 1989 won in 3 categories, including Album of the Year. Swift became the first woman and fifth act overall to win Album of the Year twice as a lead artist. [...] Swift released her first two EPs "The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection" and "Beautiful Eyes" in October 2007 and July 2008, respectively, winning accolades for all of her first three projects. She became the youngest person to be honored with the BMI Songwriter of the Year title in 2007. She won awards at the CMAs, ACMs and AMAs while also securing a nomination for Best New Artist at the 50th Grammy Awards. Image 5: adolescencia 4.jpg Image 6: fearless.jpg Fearless

• Taylor Swift | Pennsylvania Center for the Book

  Taylor Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania. She spent her early years at Pine Ridge Farm in nearby Cumru Township and in Wyomissing before moving to Nashville, Tennessee, to become a country singer. In the early 2010s, she transitioned from country to pop music. She is the first artist to win four Album of the Year awards and the first to simultaneously hold all top 10 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Biography [...] Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania, to Andrea and Scott Swift. Her mother worked at an advertising agency and her father at Merrill Lynch. She lived at Pine Ridge Farm, an 11-acre Christmas tree farm in nearby Cumru Township, with her younger brother, Austin. In a 2014 interview with Esquire Magazine, she recalled, "[A Christmas tree farm] was such a weird place to grow up. But it has cemented in me this unnatural level of excitement about ... the [...] When Swift was 14, her family relocated to Hendersonville, a suburb of Nashville, to focus on her career. During a showcase at The Bluebird Café in 2004, she was noticed by Scott Borchetta, an executive from the newly formed indie label Big Machine Records. She signed with them. In 2006, her first album, Taylor Swift (2006), was released and rose to No. 3 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. She won the Country Music Association's Horizon Award (now the New Artist of the Year Award) the

• Biography - IST 605: Taylor Swift - LibGuides at University at Albany

  Learn More Search Engine Databases References Biography 1989-2005:Taylor Alison Swift was born December 13th 1989 in Reading Pennsylvania. She was always interested in music and began to write music and play the guitar at age 12. Her family moved to Nashville to help her achieve her dream of being a singer at 13 and by 14 she had signed with Sony/ATV as a song writer. She was scouted when performing in Nashville by the head of Big Machine Records and signed (Ray, n.d.). [...] 2006:Taylor released her first single titled "Tim McGraw"in 2006. Her debut album _Taylor Swift_ came out later in 2006 and by 2007 it was a platinum million selling album(Ray, n.d.). 2008:In 2008, she released her second album _Fearless_ which debut at number 1 on the billboard 200 Chart. Her songs"You Belong With Me" and "Love Story" off of the album were massive hits as well (Ray, n.d.). [...] 2024:She is announced as the winner of two Grammys: best pop vocal album and album of the year for _Midnights_. This makes her the only artist to have ever won album of the year at the Grammys 4 times. Taylor also released her new double album _The Tortured Poets Department_ and _The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology_(Ray, n.d.). Ray, M. (n.d.). Taylor Swift. Shibboleth authentication request. <<Previous: Home Next: Music >>

• Award

  MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects

• Image

  

• Gender

  female

• Educated At

  Hendersonville High School

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  actor

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  12/13/1989

• Notable Work

  Shake It Off

• Place Of Birth

  West Reading