Taylor Swift - Biography

Last Editor: SeLeNa				Taylor Swift Biography -   Name : Taylor Swift Birth name : Taylor Alison Swift Date of birth : December 13, 1989 Place of birth : Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, USA Profession : Singer-songwriter Instruments : Vocals, guitar Height : 5' 11" (1.80 m)

Taylor Swift Trivia -

Taylor is from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania The love interest in her song, "Tim McGraw", is named Johnny. She taught herself to play guitar. She has a little brother named Austin. With her first No. 1 song "Our Song", at age 18 years and 9 days, became the fifth teen-aged female singer to top the Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs chart. The others were Jean Shepard (19 years, 9 months in August 1953 with "A Dear John Letter"), Tanya Tucker (14 years, 7 months in May 1973 with "What's Your Mama's Name"), Marie Osmond (14 years, 1 month in November 1973 with "Paper Roses") and LeAnn Rimes (14 years, 4 months in December 1996 with "One Way Ticket (Because I Can)"). She ranked #57 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list. She is a good friend of Kellie Pickler. She grew up on a Christmas tree farm and her job was to rake Praying Mantis pods off the trees. Taylor is ex-girlfriend of Joe Jonas [November 2008]. Best friends with Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus.

Taylor Swift Detailed Biography -

Taylor Swift was born on December 13, 1989 in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, USA. Now she lives in Hendersonville, Tennessee with her parents, Scott and Andrea, and her brother, Austin. Taylor Swift is an American country music artist who began her career as a teenager. She was influenced by her grandmother and LeAnn Rimes. Her grandmother was a professional opera singer. Taylor's 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 ten, Swift began to perform around her home town, Wyomissing, singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs, and also started writing songs. Taylor's first exposure to the music business consisted of recording demo tapes at a studio. At age eleven, she 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. Taylor began regular visit to Nashville, and at age twelve, she wrote their songs with local songwriters. Eventually, her family decided to move to an outlying Nashville suburb. She signed to the independent Big Machine Records label in 2006, she made her debut on the Billboard country charts with the release of her debut single "Tim McGraw". This song, which peaked at #6, was the first of five singles from her self-titled debut, which was released in late 2006 and re-issued in 2007, and has been certified 3x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA. Following "Tim McGraw" were the #2 "Teardrops on My Guitar", the six-week Number One "Our Song", the #3 "Picture to Burn" and another Number One in "Should've Said No". 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. Swift was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of Best New Artist, but lost to Amy Winehouse. Swift's successful single, "Picture to Burn" was the fourth single from her debut album. The song debuted early in 2008 and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Country Chart in the spring of 2008. Swift was cover girl of Seventeen in the June 2008 issue. She was also named number fifty-two on Maxim's sexiest women of '08. On September 21, 2007, Swift launched a campaign to protect children from online predators. Swift has teamed up with Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen to combat internet sex crimes. Swift confirmed in a 2008 interview with Ellen DeGeneres on her talk show that she had dated singer Joe Jonas and that he dumped her "over the phone in 27 seconds". Swift wrote the song "Forever & Always" about Jonas, and the song appeared on her album, Fearless. It was the last song that she had recorded, and it was a last minute addition to her album, making it 13 songs total. Her "lucky number" is also 13. The 56th Annual BMI Country Awards took place on November 11, 2008 at BMI's Music Row offices in Nashville. Taylor Swift won country song of the year.