Taylor Swift

Net Worth

$400,000,000

Born in (City)

Nashville

Born in (Country)

Date of Birth

13th December, 1989

Date of Death

Mother

Andrea Swift

Father

Scott Kingsley Swift

About

Taylor Swift was more of a music prodigy who was immensely interested in music and as she grew up her interest progressed quickly she started taking roles in children’s theatre to her first appearance before a crowd of thousands. She was age eleven when she sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" following year she picked up the guitar and began to write songs. Taking her inspiration from country music artists such as Shania Twain and the Dixie Chicks, Swift crafted original material that reflected her experiences of teen alienation The song was an immediate success, spending eight months on the Billboard country singles chart. Now age 16, Swift followed with a self-titled debut album, and she went on tour, opening for Rascal Flatts. Taylor Swift was certified platinum in 2007, having sold more than one million copies in the United States, and Swift continued a rigorous touring schedule, opening for artists such as George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill. That November Swift received the Horizon Award for the best new artist from the Country Music Association capping the year in which she emerged as country music’s most-visible young star.

Early Life

Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania.[4] Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a former stockbroker for Merrill Lynch; her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), is a former homemaker who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive. Swift has Scottish heritage and was named after singer-songwriter James Taylor. Her younger brother, Austin Kingsley Swift, is an actor. Swift's great-great-grandfather on her father's side was an Italian immigrant entrepreneur and community leader who opened a slew of businesses in Philadelphia in the 1800s. Swift spent her early years on a Christmas tree farm that her father purchased from one of his clients. Swift identifies as Christian. She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by the Bernadine Franciscan sisters, before transferring to The Wyndcroft School. The family moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School. At age nine, Swift became interested in musical theater and performed in four Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions. She also traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons. Swift later shifted her focus toward country music, inspired by Shania Twain's songs, which made her "want to just run around the block four times and daydream about everything." She spent weekends performing at local festivals and events. After watching a documentary about Faith Hill, Swift felt sure she needed to move to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a career in music. She traveled with her mother at age eleven to visit Nashville record labels and submitted demo tapes of Dolly Parton and The Chicks karaoke covers. She was rejected, however, because "everyone in that town wanted to do what I wanted to do. So, I kept thinking to myself, I need to figure out a way to be different."

Road to Success

In Nashville, Swift worked with experienced Music Row songwriters such as Troy Verges, Brett Beavers, Brett James, Mac McAnally, and the Warren Brothers, and formed a lasting working relationship with Liz Rose. They began meeting for two-hour writing sessions every Tuesday afternoon after school. Rose thought the sessions were "some of the easiest I've ever done. Basically, I was just her editor. She'd write about what happened in school that day. She had such a clear vision of what she was trying to say. And she'd come in with the most incredible hooks." Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Tree publishing house but left the Sony-owned RCA Records at the age of 14. She recalled: "I genuinely felt that I was running out of time. I wanted to capture these years of my life on an album while they still represented what I was going through." At an industry showcase at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe in 2005, Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a DreamWorks Records executive who was preparing to form an independent record label, Big Machine Records. She had first met Borchetta in 2004. Swift became one of Big Machine's first signings, and her father purchased a three-percent stake in the company for an estimated $120,000. She began working on her eponymous debut album shortly after. Swift persuaded Big Machine to hire her demo producer Nathan Chapman, with whom she felt she had the right "chemistry". She wrote three of the album's songs alone, and co-wrote the remaining eight with Rose, Robert Ellis Orrall, Brian Maher, and Angelo Petraglia. Taylor Swift was released on October 24, 2006. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times described it as "a small masterpiece of pop-minded country, both wide-eyed and cynical, held together by Ms. Swift's firm, pleading voice." Taylor Swift peaked at number five on the U.S. Billboard 200, where it spent 157 weeks—the longest stay on the chart by any release in the U.S. in the 2000s decade.

Challenges

For several years, sections of the media have been strangely fascinated with trying to decipher which of her songs were written about certain ex-boyfriends, perpetuating an idea that Swift ultimately uses her personal life for commercial gain. "Frankly, I think that's a very sexist angle to take,” Swift said in a 2014 interview. “No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says that about Bruno Mars.” Meanwhile, Swift’s affluent background as the daughter of a Merrill Lynch stockbroker probably hasn’t helped her to look like an artist whose success is entirely organic. Her family relocated from suburban Pennsylvania to Nashville when she was 14 so Swift could pursue a career in the home of country music. The move clearly paid off, but it makes for a less compelling origin story than some of her contemporaries can spin. Lady Gaga has spoken of honing her musical personality in dive bars on New York’s seductively grungy Lower East Side. Sheeran has recalled sleeping on Jamie Foxx’s sofa for six weeks before he became a star. Even when Miley Cyrus’s attempts to shake off her wholesome Disney Channel origins have felt clunky, they’ve contained an appealing hint of ‘devil may care’ punkiness. Identity troubles "Despite being a global phenomenon, Taylor Swift has always struggled to find her place,” says Dr Kirsty Fairclough from the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford, “and this has often transferred as a lack of identity and an identity which feels less than authentic”. For many pop fans, this lack of authenticity first crept to the surface in 2015 when Swift embarked on her 85-date 1989 World Tour. At her huge outdoor gig in London’s Hyde Park that July, Swift was joined on stage by supermodels Martha Hunt, Kendall Jenner, Karlie Kloss, Gigi Hadid and Cara Delevingne, plus tennis champion Serena Williams – members of her friendship group that the media had branded her ‘squad’. It looked a lot like a visual representation of the feminist awakening that Swift had spoken of earlier in the album campaign.

Failures

The pop singer came to the cross because of the criticism received. Taylor Swift has a habit of starting a new project and that everything is successful. But this time was not the case. The pop singer participated in the animated film “Cats”, but the collection figures left much to be desired. It is estimated that the film where the talented blonde is one of the protagonists raised a little more than half of the established budget. That is why the interpreter of “You Need To Calm Down” came to the crossroads and defended herself from the criticisms that classify the film as “the worst of the year”. Taylor said: “I have had the opportunity to work with the best dancers and actors. I have no complaints of any kind.” In addition, the former Harry Styles said “I will not analyze things in retrospect to decide that it was not my best experience.”

Achievements

She has won several of the most prestigious awards as a vocalist, which include 10 ‘Grammy Awards’, 23 ‘Billboard Music Awards’, 11 ‘Country Music Association Awards’, 8 ‘Academy of Country Music Awards’, 19 ‘American Music Awards’, 1 ‘Brit Award’ and an ‘Emmy Award’.|With her exceptional song-writing skills she has found a place for herself on ‘The Songwriters Hall of Fame.’

Quotes

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.