Taylor Swift

Name: Taylor Swift
Date of Birth: December 13, 1989
Place of Birth: Reading, Pennsylvania, USA

Mini-bio: Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is a Platinum-selling, American country music singer-songwriter. In 2006, she had her first hit at 16, "Tim McGraw", about a summer love. Since then, she h...( read more)as risen to fame, with an especially large Internet following. She has a soft and clean voice that appeals to many country music fans.

She won CMT's "Breakthrough Video of the Year" award in 2007 for her hit "Tim McGraw", and was also nominated by the Academy of Country Music for "Top New Female Vocalist".

Taylor Swift was born in Reading, PA. Swift's influences include her grandmother, who was a singer, and LeAnn Rimes. At the age of ten, Swift began to perform around her hometown, Wyomissing, singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs. Her first exposure to the music business consisted of recording demo tapes at a studio. At age 11, Taylor made her first trip to Nashville in hopes of attaining a record deal by handing out a demo tape she had made of her singing along to karaoke songs. She handed this tape to receptionists at every label on Music Row. Taylor returned to Pennsylvania without a record deal but remained confident in her ability, writing her first song, "Lucky You". Her big break came at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, when her rendition of the national anthem moved the crowd. Her favorite color is white and her favorite place to be is anywhere near a creek. Within a few months she was featured as a rising star in an Abercrombie & Fitch campaign. In Nashville she wrote songs with local songwriters. The family decided to move to Hendersonville, Tennessee, an outlying Nashville suburb. When she performed at Nashville's premier songwriters' cafe, The Bluebird Café, she caught the attention of Scott Borchetta. Scott signed her to his new label, Big Machine Records.

Swift's first single, "Tim McGraw", was released to radio in Summer of 2006. The video debuted in July 2006 on Great American Country. On October 24, 2006, her self-titled CD was released.

The CD, on which Swift wrote or co-wrote all of the songs, peaked at #19 on the sales charts and sold more than 61,000 during its first week. During the Summer of 2007, her debut album spent eight consecutive weeks at #1 on the Top Country Albums Chart. The song "Tim McGraw" peaked at #6 on the chart week of January 27, 2007. The video set a record by appearing for 30 consecutive weeks on GAC's fan-voted weekly Top 20 music countdown show, and the video reached #1 on CMT's video charts.

Since her success, she has appeared on Good Morning America and at the 2006 Academy of Country Music Awards. She also won "Breakthrough Video of the Year" on the 2007 CMT Music Awards with "Tim McGraw". Her pursuit of country music stardom was the subject of "GAC Short Cuts", a part-documentary, part-music video series airing since the summer of 2006 on the country music channel Great American Country.

Swift sang the national anthem and performed at various events since then. One of her biggest mainstream performances was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on February 13, 2007, where she performed her single, "Tim McGraw." Swift also appeared on Ellen, singing "Our Song." On May 15, 2007, Swift performed her Gold single, "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. Taylor has been an opening act for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill on their Soul2Soul 2007 tour. She is currently touring with Brad Paisley and has opened in the past for George Strait and Rascal Flatts as well.

More recently, she was named a presenter and performer at the prestigious American Women in Radio and Television event in New York in June 2007. Her second album is about to be recorded and planned for a 2008 release, the same year she is scheduled to graduate high school through her home-school program.

On August 30, Taylor was named one of 5 nominees for the 2007 CMA Horizon Award. The CMA Awards will be televised on November 6.

Taylor is one of the first country music artists to use the Internet as a primary source of communication, such as her Myspace, which has over 26,000,000 music plays. She has directed much of her attention to her "Myspace friends" and attracts younger audiences because she is young herself.

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With her first No. 1 song "Our Song," at age 18 years and 9 days, became the fifth teenaged 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)").

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Eye color: Blue

Height: 5'11"

Nickname(s): TayTay

Notable feature(s): Long blonde hair, and is extremely tall

Education: High School Diploma

Family: Her Grandmother was an Opera singer and was one of Taylor's insoirations!

Resides in: Hendersonville, Tenn.

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Personal interests/hobbies:Singing, Song writing, Piano and Guitar playing!

Charities/Causes: St. Judes Childrens hospital, Donated over $100,000 to flood victims this last year.

Other: Her first cd she bought was LeAnn Rimes 'Blue', Her second was The Dixie Chicks. Her biggest inspirations were her Grandmother (an Opera singer), and LeAnn Rimes and she was able to tell her so at the American Country Music Awards in 2008.

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jordanlobb

Hi Tayler will you add me

posted 5 days ago
lucylu987

ur rock taylor!!!!

posted 31 days ago
ANGELSOFNANA

your a great singer . i love to hear you sing ,i wish you the best

posted 40 days ago
gerblets

taory i luve u so muuuuuuuuccccchhhhhhh

posted 48 days ago
gerblets

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posted 58 days ago
rsb1201

he talor i wanted to say you are so lucky you are dating joe jonas.

posted 65 days ago
ilovemyblake

omg this gurl is the best country singer in the world i love all of ur songs and now all the words i love u and u rock

posted 68 days ago
taylorswift999

Hey!! sup...

posted 76 days ago
mrbicklethepickle

Why does Taylor Swift have a profile? She isn't an actress.

posted 78 days ago
Megggyy

Person below me, no actual actor has a flixster page. This isn't really her, none of the pages are the actual people.

posted 85 days ago