Taylor-Swift

Taylor Swift is Taylor Alison Swift. She was born December 13, 1989 in West Reading, Pennsylvania. Swift has been a singer/songwriter from the pop/country genre for the past 20 years. The stories she tells of her romance and love at first sight have gained her widespread popularity throughout the 21st century. Swift was interested in music at an early age. She quickly moved up in the ranks, beginning as a child actor and eventually performing before an audience of thousands. As Swift sang The Star-Spangled Banner in front of an Philadelphia 76ers match when she was 11 she had already begun writing songs. The next year she began playing guitar. Swift took inspiration from artists from the country genre, such as Shania Twain, the Dixie Chicks and, more recently, the Chicks to create original material that reflected the loneliness she experienced at 13. Swift's parents moved her to Tennessee when she was thirteen after they sold their Pennsylvania farm. The move enabled Swift to devote more time courting labels for country music in Nashville.