Her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, was an opera singer. She was named after singer-songwriter James Taylor, and has Scottish and German heritage. Her younger brother, Austin, is an actor. Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a former stockbroker for Merrill Lynch and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), is a former homemaker who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive.
Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania. Swift's childhood home in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania Her music is credited with influencing a generation of musicians. Honored with titles such as Artist of the Decade and Woman of the Decade, Swift is an advocate for artists' rights and women's empowerment. Swift has been featured in rankings such as Rolling Stone 's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time, Billboard 's Greatest of All Time Artists, the Time 100 and Forbes Celebrity 100. Among her accolades are 12 Grammy Awards, including three Album of the Year wins an Emmy Award 40 American Music Awards 29 Billboard Music Awards three IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year awards and 92 Guinness World Records. She is the most streamed woman on Spotify and the only act to have five albums open with over one million copies sold in the US. Having sold over 200 million records globally, Swift is one of the best-selling musicians in history. Swift directed music videos and films such as All Too Well: The Short Film (2021), and played supporting roles in others. Her 2022 album Midnights and single " Anti-Hero" broke multifarious records. Swift began re-recording her first six albums after a dispute with Big Machine over the masters, having released Fearless (Taylor's Version) and Red (Taylor's Version) in 2021 the latter's " All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" became the longest song to top the Hot 100. She released her seventh album Lover (2019) and autobiographical documentary Miss Americana (2020), influenced by political disillusionment, and ventured into indie folk and alternative rock in her 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore, whose singles " Cardigan" and " Willow" topped the Hot 100. Media scrutiny inspired her next album Reputation (2017) and its number-one single " Look What You Made Me Do". She experimented with rock and electronic styles on Red (2012), which featured her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one song, " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", and eschewed her country image in her synth-pop album 1989 (2014), supported by chart-topping songs " Shake It Off", " Blank Space", and " Bad Blood". pop and all-genre airplay charts, respectively. The former's " Love Story" and " You Belong with Me" were the first country songs to top the U.S.
Her next two albums, Fearless (2008) and Speak Now (2010), explored country pop. Her 2006 self-titled debut album made her the first female country artist to write a U.S. She signed a songwriting deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing in 2004 and a recording contract with Big Machine Records in 2005. Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville at age 14 to become a country artist. Her genre-spanning discography, songwriting, and artistic reinventions have received critical praise and wide media coverage. Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter.
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