Overview (4)

Born December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA Birth Name Taylor Alison Swift Nicknames T-Swizzle

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Tay-Tay Height 5' 11" (1.8 m)

Mini Bio (1)

Trade Mark (6)

Writes some of her songs about her exes



Her songs usually tell a story



Bright Red Lips



At the beginning of her career: blonde ringlets



Bangs



Very long, toned legs



Trivia (68)

The love interest in her song, "Tim McGraw", is named Johnny.



Taught herself to play guitar.





Sister of Austin Swift (aka Austin K. Swift), a photographer. He photographed her "Fearless Tour".



With her first #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)").

Was ranked #57 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 of 2008 list.



She grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania and her job was to rake Praying Mantis pods off the trees.





(June 2008 - October 2008) Was in a relationship with Joe Jonas

She won the award for Best Female Video at the 2009 Video Music Awards.



On November 11th, 2009, Taylor became the youngest singer to win the CMA Entertainer of the Year Award.



She spent her summers through the age of 14 at the Jersey shore. Her family owned a home in Stone Harbor, NJ, a South Jersey resort town north of Cape May and south of Atlantic City.





She credits LeAnn Rimes as her main influence into a country music career. Swift stated on Die Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) that she wanted to be a country singer after attending Rimes' concert.



She was a member of a local Saturday Night Live (1975)-inspired kid's sketch comedy group TheatreKids Live! while growing up in Pennsylvania.



Her best friend Abigail Anderson , whom she's known since ninth grade, is mentioned in her song "Fifteen" from her "Fearless" album.

She graduated in July 2008 from Hendersonville High School in Hendersonville, TN.



(5/4/10) Named a spokeswoman for Cover Girl.





(July 2009 - December 2009) Was in a relationship with Taylor Lautner

Ranked #31 in Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" Women of 2010.





(October 2010 - December 2010) Was in a relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal

Holds the rare distinction of having all of her released singles (excluding promotional singles and singles as a featured artist) reach the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. Of those 12 singles, five have reached the Top 10, and three of those have reached the Top 5.





Went to the same high school in Wyomissing, PA, as Jillian Murray before moving to Hendersonville, TN.



When Beyoncé won the MTV Music Video award for Video of the Year, she set aside her acceptance speech in order to allow Taylor to finish her acceptance speech, for best female video, which had been interrupted by Kanye West hours earlier.

She won the Entertainer of the Year" award at the 46th American Country Music Awards.



Ranked #20 in Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" Women of 2011.



Her first song was called "Lucky You".



It took three attempts to get her driver's permit when she was 15.



Ranked #61 in the 2011 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".



Ranked #53 in the 2011 FHM Australia list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".



Nicknamed her car "Toyoat" because it is a Toyota.



Named Billboard magazine's "Woman of the Year" for 2011 [October 12, 2011].



Named the 2011 "Entertainer of the Year" by the Academy of Country Music". [2011]





Is a fan of Rihanna

At many of her concerts she comes out with a Minnesota Vikings jersey with the #13 on the back. The Vikings had it specially made for her.





Is a big fan of Britney Spears and has a poster of Britney in her room.

Her sophomore album, "Fearless", is the most awarded album in country music history. It won the American Music Award for Favorite Country Album, the Academy of Country Music Award for Album of the Year, the Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year, the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, and the music industry's highest honor, the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.



At the age of 20, became the youngest artist in music history to win the coveted Grammy Award for Album of the Year.



Wrote her hit song "Love Story" on her bedroom floor in 20 minutes.



Gave a free showcase to her Brazilian fans on 9/13/12 in Rio de Janeiro to promote her "Red" album. It was her first time ever in Brazil.





When asked by a fan if she was someone else (an actress), who would she be, she replied she'd like to be Gwyneth Paltrow , as she "is beautiful, cool and has beautiful kids".



In early 2012 she assisted magician Franz Harary with the world premiere of a new illusion called "Slice-Her", in which she was sawed in half and her halves pulled apart while standing up and without any boxes hiding her body from view at any time.



Is captivated by the poet Pablo Neruda

She wrote her song "Teadrops On My Guitar" for a boy who she was in love with in high school and he only saw her as a friend.



Keeps a journal and writes about how her day went.



One of her paternal great-great-grandfathers, Carmine Antonio Baldi, was an Italian immigrant from Castelnuovo Cilento. Her other ancestry is German and English, and smaller amounts of Scottish, Irish, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Welsh, along with distant French, Swedish and Dutch.





Is best friends with supermodel Karlie Kloss which lead to them appearing on the cover of Vogue together.

Unlike most people, Taylor considers "13" her lucky number in that she was born on the 13th, turned 13 on Friday the 13th, her first album turned Gold in 13 weeks and her first #1 song had a 13-second intro.





Was in a relationship with Calvin Harris [2015].



Scott Swift , Taylor's father, helped her break into country music, by buying a 3% stake in the music label, Big Machine. The label later signed Taylor Swift, kick-starting her career.



Godmother to Leo Thames Newman (b. July 16, 2015), younger son of Kyle Newman and Jaime King

As of Sept 2016, she has 91.4 million Instagram followers.



Her comeback single "Look What You Made Me Do" dethroned Luis Fonsi at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and thwarted its almost record breaking streak. Rap newcomer Cardi B soon knocked to her number 3, while Cardi made history as the first female rapper to have a number 1 song as a solo artist since Lauryn Hill in 1998.



She claims that she can't watch Disney's "Pocahontas" without crying.



Every time she releases an album she goes to a Target store to personally purchase a copy and to see the display.





Made her first-ever political endorsements in October 2018, endorsing Democrats Phil Bredesen and Jim Cooper

Every time she has won an award she has been seated in either the 13th seat, the 13th row, the 13th section or row M, which is the 13th letter.





According to her godson Leo's mother Jaime King , Swift went on to give "a very incredible donation" to Cedars-Sinai, where Leo had his heart surgery due to transposition of the great vessels, a heart condition he was diagnosed with while 33 weeks in utero.



Was named after singer James Taylor . When she was born "Taylor" was rarely used for girls.

Personal Quotes (26)



[on the Britney Spears perfume she wore] The coolest girl in school wore Britney Spears' Fantasy, and I had to copy her.

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.



I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.



When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.



There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.



I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.



Everyone I know has had fair warning! I've always written about who's spending time with me, so if they get into any kind of a relationship with me, they know what they're getting into.



There is a strength in letting bygones be bygones. It was therapeutic to write and perform. Sometimes it's best not to say anything. I just save it for the music.



Love is fascinating. Wishing for it, pining for it and the anger that comes when you lose it. I used to think that I could figure out some pattern to love, like if you don't text a guy back for a half-hour, he'll like you more. But there is no pattern. Absolutely nothing is predictable in love.



No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.



Almost every time I put something out, there's the word 'too' put in front of it - too pop, too country, too rock. So I've kinda stopped worrying about it. I'd rather be too something than not enough something.



I see myself as kind of this girl who writes songs in her bedroom. You can dress it up all you want and you can put together an amazing theatrical production; you can become a better performer as time goes by, and you can try to excite people. But I'm always going to be a girl who writes songs in her bedroom in my own personal perception of myself.



My mom named me Taylor because she thought I would probably end up in corporate business and she didn't want any kind of executive, boss, manager to see if I was a girl or a boy if they got my resume.



If I'm in the mood to be held accountable for every single article of clothing on my body - whether it matches, if it clashes, if it's on trend - then I go out. If I'm not interested in undergoing that kind of debate and conversation - regarding how I'm walking, whether I look tired, how my makeup is right, what's that mark on my knee, did I hurt myself? - I just don't go out.



[on her female fans] They're discovering the music that tells them how they are going to live their lives and how they should feel and how it's acceptable to feel. I think that that's kind of exciting.



I struggle to find a woman in music who hasn't been completely picked apart by the media, or scrutinized and criticized for aging, or criticized for fighting aging. It just seems to be much more difficult to be a woman in music and to grow older. I hope that I will choose to do it as gracefully as possible.



There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.



This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.



I'm thankful that when I go to bed at night that I have been myself that day.



[At 19 years old] I have never had a cigarette. I have never had a drop of alcohol. I have no interest in drinking. I always want to be responsible for the things I say and do. Also, I would have a problem lying to my parents about that.



[on Ed Sheeran] Whether by choice or by an unconscious evolution, when he decided on his musical ambitions, Ed became less than a boy and more of a tank. He is protected by an impenetrable and ever-present armor of enthusiasm that has helped him endure any setback, letdown or underestimation. His reaction to any idea that fails is to almost immediately come up with a new one. He's like a fighter who pops back up on his feet before you even noticed he'd been knocked down.



[September 2008] I was an outsider at school. When I go back, I feel like my hair's frizzy and people are laughing at me. It's still the middle-school insecurity thing.



[My parents taught me] never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.



[on her fans] The longest and best relationship I have ever had.



I write songs, and my voice is just a way to get those lyrics across.



I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

