All about Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American country pop singer-songwriter & actress.

In 2006, he released her debut single "Tim McGraw", then her self-titled debut album, which was subsequently certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. In November 2008, Swift released her second album, Brave. Brave & Taylor Swift done 2008 at number-three & number-six respectively, with sales of 2.1 & 1.5 million. Brave has topped the Billboard 200 in 11 non-consecutive weeks; no album has spent more time at No. 1 since 2000. Swift was named Artist of the Year by Billboard Magazine in 2009. Brave won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2010.

In 2008, her albums sold a combined two million copies, making her the best-selling musician of the year in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Forbes ranked Swift 2009's 69th-most powerful celebrity with earnings of $18 million. In January 2010 Nielsen SoundScan lists Swift as the top-selling digital artist in music history with over 24.3 million digital tracks sold. To date, he's sold over ten million albums worldwide.

At ten years elderly, Swift began writing songs & singing at karaoke contests, festivals, & fairs around her hometown. Four summers, he devoted herself to writing a 350-page novel, which remains unpublished. Her first major show was a well-received performance at the Bloomsburg Fair.

Swift was born in the borough of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. He is the daughter of Scott Swift, a stock broker, & his wife Andrea, a homemaker. He's a younger brother, Austin. When he was in fourth grade, Swift won a national poetry contest with a three-page poem titled "Monster In My Closet".

Swift began learning to play guitar from a computer repairman who showed her how to play two chords. After learning those two chords, he wrote her first song, "Lucky You". He began writing songs regularly and used it as an outlet to help her with her pain from not fitting in at school. Other children would react badly to her so he wrote songs about them.

Swift's greatest musical influence is Shania Twain. Her other influences include LeAnn Rimes, Tina Turner, Dolly Parton, and Swift's grandmother. Although her grandmother was a professional opera singer, Taylor's tastes always ran more toward country and he developed a love for Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton at an early age. He also credits the Dixie Chicks and Shania Twain for demonstrating how much impact can be made by "stretching boundaries".

After Swift returned to Pennsylvania, he was asked to sing at the U.S. Open tennis tournament; her rendition of the national anthem received a lot of attention. Swift started writing songs and playing 12-string guitar when he was 12. Swift began to regularly visit Nashville and wrote songs with local songwriters. By the time he was 14, her relatives decided to move to an outlying Nashville suburb.

At age 11, Swift made her first trip to Nashville, hoping to receive a record deal by distributing a demo tape of her singing with karaoke songs. He gave a copy to every label in town. Swift was rejected by record labels and her peers.

When Swift was 15, he rejected RCA Records because the company wanted to keep her on a development deal. Swift then performed at Nashville's songwriters' venue, The Bluebird Café, catching the attention of Scott Borchetta who signed her to his newly formed record label, Giant Machine Records. At age 14, he also became the youngest staff songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Tree publishing house.