Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift (Reading (Pennsylvania), 13 december 1989) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actress. In Netherlands she was known by the single "Love Story". In Belgium was her first big hit "You Belong with Me".



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == Taylor was born on december 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, on a Christmas trees nursery. She is the daughter of Andrea Gardner, a housewife, and Scott Kingsley Swift, a securities trader, and has a younger brother, Austin. Her grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, was an opera singer.
 * 1.1 Career
 * 1.2 Personal
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 2.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 3 Filmography

When Swift in the fourth grade, she won a national poetry contest with a three-page long poem "Monster in My Closet". When she was twelve her a computer repairman learned three chords on guitar playing. Afterwards, she wrote her first song, "Lucky You". On her twelfth Swift spent an entire summer to writing a 350 pages long novel, which however has never been issued. She began writing songs regularly. At school, she was bullied, and so she spent her time writing songs that were an outlet for her emotions. She also began to perform at local festivals and participated in karaoke contests.

Swift regularly went to Nashville, Tennessee, to work with local songwriters. At the age of fourteen, she moved with her family to Nashville, then to the Hendersonville High School. The last two years of the secondary degree, she was home-schooled. In 2008 she obtained her diploma of secondary education. ===Career[ Edit] === Taylors biggest musical example is Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, as well as Tina Turner and Dolly Parton . For the first time at age 11 she went to Nashville where they each record label gave off a cd with self-Sung karaoke songs, but they came up empty handed back. Many being her off because of her young age. On her fourteenth she became the youngest songwriter ever adopted by Sony/ATV Tree publishing house. On her fifteenth RCA offered her a development deal, which she turned down because they do not own songs should sing. Soon after, she got another contract offered by Scott Borchetta by Big Machine, which had seen action in her bluebird café inNashville.

In 2006, Swift her debut single "Tim McGraw" out. On 26 October of that same year she released her debut album Taylor Swift out of which were sold during the first week all 39000 copies. The second single from that album, "Teardrops on My Guitar", was released on February 24, 2007. In October 2007, Swift the price ' Songwriter/artist of the year ' by the Nashville Songwriters Assn. Intl. as the youngest artist ever. The third song on her debut album, "Our Song", gave up six weeks at number one in the country charts. In 2007, Taylor a Christmas album, Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, which was sold exclusively at Target. In 2008, she was nominated for a Grammy Award for ' Best New Artist ', but lost to Amy Winehouse. "Should've Said No" was Swifts second number one hit. In the summer of 2008 she released "Beautiful Eyes", an EP that was sold only at Wal-Mart. In the first week after the album was released there were 45000 copies sold.

Taylor's second studio album, Fearless, was released in the United States on november 11, 2008. With 592.304 copies sold in its first week sales of this album were higher than the sales figures in the opening week of any other album by a female artist in 2008. The first single from Fearless, "Love Story", was a hit in both the countryhitlijsten as the pop hit lists. "Forever and Always", another song on that album, is based on her relationship with Joe Jonas. For the album "Fearless" she received 8 Grammy nominations where they won there 4 of. Including one for ' Album of the year ', making her the youngest winner (res) of this price ever made.

On January 19, 2010 brought Swift "Today was a Fairytale" from the soundtrack for the film Valentine's Day, in which she made her acting debut. Billboard unveiled In July 2010 that her third album Speak Now would welcome. It came out on October 25, 2010. She has written this album all by myself. On August 4, 2010 Speak Now's leaked the first single, "Mine", out on the internet. Big Machine decided then to the number earlier than planned. "Back to December" has written them following her, now ended, relationship with Twilightactor Taylor Lautner. For the album Speak Now she received 3 Grammy nominations where they won there 2 of.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Swifts first live album, Speak Now World Tour: Live, on which all seventeen performances from the North American part of her tour to show up, was released on november 21, 2011. Swift also announced that they had written 25 songs for an album that was released at the end of 2012 under the title Red .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Taylor worked In 2011 to the soundtrack for The Hunger Games, a film based on the novel by Suzanne Collins. Her song "Safe and Sound" was the first song of the soundtrack released. She has the song written together with The Civil Wars, with which she has recorded. For this number, they won a Grammy in the category "Best song written for Visual media". Also has them for the film included a next track, "Eyes Open", that she only has written.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Taylor's fourth album, Red, appeared on 22 October 2012. The cd contains 16 songs. There was also a Deluxe Edition released, on which six additional songs are download. On this cd has Taylor a few songs co-written with guest writers, such as Max Martin and Joan shellback. The album also contains two duets. "The Last Time" wrote Swift with Snow Patrolfrontman Gary Lightbody. Along with Ed Sheeran wrote and sang they number 14 from the album, "Everything Has Changed". Red is compared to Taylors previous CDs more aimed at the general public, and is affected by, among other things, dubstep and among other things the genres pop and country.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to the music magazine Billboard was the singer with 35.7 million in 2011 and $ 29 million in 2013 with the highest earning artist.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  she has Also achieved many records, so among other things two Guinness book of World records for the only female artist ever released 3 albums in a row that all three more than 1 million were sold in the first week. And for her hit "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", which had become the fastest digital number 1 hit ever by in 50 minutes after it was released already at number 1. Taylor Swift now has a spacious two hundred awards includingGrammy Awards', 7 ' 15 'American Music Awards' and 11 'Country Music Association Awards'.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Her latest album "Red" was also the best-selling album in the first week since 2001. And she got a ' nominated for Album of the year ' at the Grammys. ===Personal<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Taylor lives partly in Rhode island, but this is more her vacation home. She has a house in Beverly Hills (California) and in Nashville, Tennessee and bought in 2014 an apartment in Manhattan (New York). She is working on her fifth studio album and will be featured in The movie "The Giver" which will come out in August 2014. ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience -2009
 * CSI season 9, episode 16 "Turn, Turn, Turn" -2009
 * Hannah Montana: The Movie -2009
 * Valentine's Day -2010
 * Dr. Seuss ' The Lorax -2012
 * New Girl (TV series) season 2 episode 25 "" Elaine's Big Day ""-2013