She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by the Bernadine Franciscan sisters, before transferring to The Wyndcroft School. She spent her early years on a Christmas tree farm that her father purchased from one of his clients. Swift's paternal great-great-grandfather was an Italian immigrant entrepreneur and community leader who opened several businesses in Philadelphia in the 1800s. She was named after singer-songwriter James Taylor and has Scottish and German heritage some of her antecedents worked in the music industry. Her younger brother, Austin, is an actor. Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a former stockbroker for Merrill Lynch her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (nГ©e Finlay), is a former homemaker who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive. Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, at the Reading Hospital in West Reading, Pennsylvania. Swift's childhood home in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania Named the Woman of the 2010s Decade by Billboard and the Artist of the 2010s Decade by the American Music Awards, Swift has been recognized for her advocacy of artists' rights and women's empowerment in the music industry. She featured on Rolling Stone 's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time (2015), placed eighth on Billboard 's Greatest of All Time Artists list (2019), and appeared multiple times on power rankings such as the Time 100 and the Forbes Celebrity 100. Her accolades include 11 Grammy Awards (including three Album of the Year wins), an Emmy Award, 12 Country Music Association Awards, 25 Billboard Music Awards (the most wins for a female artist), 32 American Music Awards (the most wins for an artist) and 49 Guinness World Records. Having sold over 200В million records worldwide, Swift is one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

She has released the autobiographical documentary Miss Americana (2020), and the self-directed musical films Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020) and All Too Well: The Short Film (2021), amongst other specials. Besides music, Swift has played various supportive acting roles in films such as Valentine's Day (2010) and Cats (2019). To gain ownership over the masters of her back catalog, Swift released two re-recorded albums in 2021, Fearless (Taylor's Version) and Red (Taylor's Version), earning acclaim for their enhanced musicality and vocal performances. After consistent commercial success in the 2010s, she ventured into indie folk and alternative rock on her 2020 studio albums, Folklore and Evermore, whose lyricism, inspired by escapism during the COVID-19 pandemic, was commended for its nuanced storytelling. Parting ways with Big Machine to sign with Republic Records in 2018, Swift released her seventh studio album, Lover, in 2019. The media scrutiny on her personal life that followed largely inspired Swift's sixth studio album, Reputation (2017), which delved into urban sounds. Her fifth, the synth-pop album 1989 (2014), effectively transformed her status from country songstress to pop star, supported by the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles ' Shake It Off', ' Blank Space', and ' Bad Blood'. She experimented further with pop, rock, and electronic genres on her fourth studio album, Red (2012). The success of the former's singles ' Love Story' and ' You Belong with Me' on both country and pop radio established Swift as a leading crossover artist. She explored country pop on her second and third studio albums, Fearless (2008) and Speak Now (2010). She signed a songwriting deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing in 2004 and a recording deal with Big Machine Records in 2005, and released her eponymous debut studio album in 2006. Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, Swift relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music. Her discography spans genres and her narrative songwriting, which is often inspired by her personal life, has received widespread media coverage and critical praise.

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

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