Celebrities Within

Screen Name: 
Taylor Swift

Birth Name: 
Taylor Alison Swift

Birth Date:
13 December 1989
Birth Place:
Wymossing, Pennsylvania U.S.A

Height:   

5' 10" (1.78 m)

Taylor Swift 

Taylor Swift is an American country pop and singer–songwriter, guitarist, and actress.  In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", which preceded the release of her self-titled debut album ( Taylor Swift ). By 2008, Swift released her second album, "Fearless" and considered as the highest-selling artist of 2008 in the United States with combined sales of more than four million albums.

Early Beginnings 

Taylor Swift was born in Pennsylvania and lives with her parents in Hendersonville, Tennessee. She is the daughter of Scott Swift, a stock broker, and his wife Andrea, a homemaker. She has a younger brother, Austin. In her childhood years, Swift won a national poetry contest with a three page poem entitled "Monster In My Closet". This happened when she was in her 4th grade.

At ten, Swift began writing songs and singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs around her hometown. During one summer, Swift devoted herself to writing a 350 page (unpublished) novel.

She was a member of a local SNL-inspired kid's sketch comedy group, TheatreKids Live!, where she was a natural comedic talent. After seeing her karaoke performance at one of the cast parties, group founder Kirk Cremer's mother suggested that Swift seemed more of a natural to pursue a career in country music than theatrical performing. Cremer soon leased space at a local mall and began to showcase his young protégée in weeknight performances of country songs with karaoke backing tracks. Emboldened by her performances and growing audiences, she began to perform in other local open mike and karaoke nights. Her first major show was a well-received performance at the Bloomsburg Fair, arranged by local performer Pat Garrett.

Swift's influences include her grandmother, who was an opera singer,and LeAnn Rimes.Although her grandmother was a professional opera singer, Taylor’s tastes always ran more toward country and she developed a love for Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton at an early age. At the age of ten, Swift began to perform around her hometown, Wyomissing, singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs, she also started writing her songs at age 10. 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 obtaining 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. When she performed at Nashville's premier songwriters' cafe, The Bluebird Café, she caught the attention of Scott Borchetta. Scott signed her to his newly-formed record label, Big Machine Records.

Taylor's pictures

 












source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift
                http://www.popstarsplus.com/music_taylorswift.htm