Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift grew up on a farm in Wyomissing, Pa. Inspired by her maternal grandmother, a professional opera singer, Taylor took up singing early in life. At 10, she began performing around town at karaoke contests, festivals and county fairs, and even recording rough demos at a studio. At age 11, Taylor Swift performed the national anthem at a Philadelphia 76ers NBA game in front of thousands of fans.
At 12, she picked up a guitar and learned to write her own songs. Her family took regular trips to Nashville to shop her music around, and she wrote with local songwriters. After a few years, during which the family made the decision to move to nearby Hendersonville, Tenn., a showcase at the Bluebird Cafe caught the attention of music-industry veteran Scott Borchetta.
Taylor Swift released her debut album on Borchetta’s label, Big Machine Records, in 2006. The project includes her first single, “Tim McGraw.”
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September 6, 2007 at 5:00 pm
I think that Taylor Swift is amazing
November 19, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I love taylor swift I wish she could comme to P.E.I becouse its so cool
November 20, 2007 at 2:09 pm
hey taylor ic really like you to mail me im your biggest fan you have a teriffic voice and if you can send me a free c-d well yay im 13 and live in hamilton mississippi
November 20, 2007 at 2:11 pm
i love taylors music it the hit
November 24, 2007 at 3:19 pm
I lovvvvve Taylor Swift!!!!!!!!!!
November 26, 2007 at 3:25 am
I saw Taylor on the Bonfires and Amplifiers tour with Brad Paisley at the Qwest Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She has an awesome voice! Keep up the good work Taylor!
December 5, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Taylor Swift is the best singer in the world and i love her voice I think that she should make a song with reba macentireit would sound so good. I LOVE YOU TAYLOR!!!
December 5, 2007 at 11:19 pm
omg Taylor I love your music!!! The song that really made me cry was Teardrops On My Gutiar
December 9, 2007 at 6:38 am
..i love taylor swift..!!keep it up..!!god bless..!
December 13, 2007 at 7:59 pm
i think that you are really pretty. My best friend maddie is a huge fan. i was hoping that the next time you preform you could dedicate a song to her. Thanks
December 17, 2007 at 2:21 am
I love all of ur songs!!! they are great!!!!
December 18, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Taylor, You and your songs are B-E-A-utiful! will you marry me
December 20, 2007 at 4:43 am
Aloha Miss Taylor from Hawaii
January 1, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Taylor you are the greatest singer ever!! I know all the words to your songs by heart and I love the song shouldve said no. It sa-oooo ta-otaly rox! i think its awsome that your the youngest country singer. i saw you on the new yrs tv show last night you were soooo good. your just soo pretty and soo cool. i luv yu!!!!!
January 2, 2008 at 1:09 am
You are the best singer! You are awesome!
January 2, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Taylor you are very pretty and I think that it is so cool for you to be the worlds youngest country singer ever! You Rock! You are also very beautiful.
January 5, 2008 at 12:14 am
I like the song ”tear drops on my guitar” it’s pretty.I also thinks that Taylor Swift is also pretty! =)
January 13, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Hi Taylor i love you and your music i am 19 and would love to meet you in person and go to one of your concerts. Thanks Love your BIGGEST fan Andrew
January 16, 2008 at 6:38 pm
hey i love taylor singing i have her cd
January 16, 2008 at 6:40 pm
hey i love taylor singing i have her cd i am 17 and would to meet her
January 17, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Taylor you are very very pretty and i listen your music a lot!
January 19, 2008 at 12:47 am
OMJ….. I LOVE YOU TAYLOR!!!!!!!!! I also love ur songs! I am glad i can look up to u! I use to look up to people like Hilary Duff, But they turned their back on there younger audience…… Any way, I live in New York and I relly want you to perform up here soon! maybe Some time in like July (When There is no School!) Plus my B-Day is in July and seeing u waould b the Altamite B-day Gift!!!!!!!! Maybe I get a backstag pass (Hint,hint LOL) And I could show u around NYC!!!!! ROMBL
Lizzy
Poughkeepsie NY 12
January 19, 2008 at 12:54 am
p.s. I LOVE TAYLOR SWIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and dont u forget it!!!!!!!
January 19, 2008 at 1:11 am
Taylor is just so amazing… I love all her music.
January 20, 2008 at 1:36 pm
OMG, Taylor u r sooooooo awsome! i luv u sooo much! One time i think u were in wal-mart and my friend saw you and she got a picture with you and her name is sarah!!!!!!!! You sooo neeed to come to kentucky (woodford County) That would be soo kool!
January 21, 2008 at 4:43 pm
OMG Taylor is soooooooo pretty she is my alll time favorite singer and she is my role model
January 28, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Hey Taylor,
Omg you just came out of no were and now your like the biggest star every one LOVES you!! When I was younger I always wanted to be a singer but never thought I was I am so glad you did start a carrer in singing beacause you are fantastic and I personaly think your songs have a GREAT message. Thank You
January 29, 2008 at 5:09 pm
OK so heres the story of how i discovered you,
My alarm clock woke me up one morning to your song “Tear drops on my guitar”, and i realized that its totally 100% what im going through rite now with this guy!
Your music is so real, its AMAZING
u really inspire me
thankyou<3
February 8, 2008 at 8:48 pm
i think taylor swift is so amazingly pretty and is a really good singer he one song that she wrote called “our song” is the one that i dedicated to me and my b/f becasue of stuff that is going on right now in both of our lives. I love all of your song and i am very proud of you and keep up the good work.
February 15, 2008 at 2:52 am
I think that Taylor swift is pretty and my fav. song by her is tear drops on my guitar. Taylor you rock!!!!!!!!!!
March 7, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Taylor Swift is so amazing she is the prettiest girl I have ever seen! I know all of her songs. Ii really LOVE her song “Our Song”! I am really country so I love her country voice. I listen to three of her songs every day litteraly. All of her songs are exactly what I am going through with my Boy Friend.
March 10, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Taylor you rock and i hope that your life is filled with many pleasures and happiness so you go girl!!!!!!!!
March 12, 2008 at 11:09 pm
I love your song Tear drops on my guitar. It is my ring tone and my favorite song. I love you!!!!!!!
March 13, 2008 at 4:12 am
I love your songs, “Tim McGraw, Our Song, and Tear drops on my Guitar”!!!!! I know them by heart!!!!!
March 14, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Hi Taylor Swift our song teardrops on my guitar.
March 17, 2008 at 11:38 pm
I think that you are just Precious!!! You are a wonderful entertainer, great voice, awesome guitar player! I think that you will make more platinum albums than any Country Female Artist out there, as well as be around for a very long time! God Bless!
March 18, 2008 at 1:38 am
hey Taylor! you’re amazing. i am 12 and you inspired me to pick up the guitar. i have even written a few songs. you are wonderful and your songs mean alot to me and i can relate to all of them. I LOVE YOU TAYLOR!!!!!! <3
March 19, 2008 at 7:44 pm
hey taylor im your biggest fan. i wish i could meet you.what inspires you to write all your songs?my favorite song by you is tear drops on my gutar.did you write that about a guy you liked but he didnt like you back?i also like our song and tim migraw i love you when will you be comeing to sacromento california? i live in california. i heard that your favorite thing in california was in-and-out-burger.that is my favorite fast food.im 12 with blue eyes my natural color hair is blonde just like yours but i died it red for my basketball team.we went undefeted and won the championship,we were the FIRE.
I LOVE YOU PLEASE MESAGE ME ON MYSPACE IM ON YOUR FRIENDS JUST LOOK FOR HANNAH IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE LOOK FOR Hannahvirtue@yahoo.com
I LOVE YOU TAYLOR SWIFT!!!!!!!!!!<3MESSAGE ME!!!!!!!!!
March 20, 2008 at 7:12 pm
taylor your music rocks!!!!!!!!!! LOL i’m your biggest fan
March 20, 2008 at 7:13 pm
you rock my favorite song is tear drops on my guitar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 21, 2008 at 5:06 pm
OMG i love taylor and i live in pa also wonder if she lives in PITTSBURGH. that would be awsome. I LOVE TAYLOR SWIFT
March 22, 2008 at 4:38 pm
taylor swift you rock and i have picked up a guitar because of you and i really like your songs and you are very pretty keep making new songs
April 3, 2008 at 8:33 pm
omg i have the same name as u i merized ur song:)
April 15, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Taylor is really amazing! I like her songs a lot!!!
April 20, 2008 at 3:10 pm
i love all of the songs
April 21, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I think that Taylor Swift has real talent. I think that she will get far in life, with her music and her beauty. I think that she is amzaing, and that her music is really thoughtgul, and really inspiring, and I think that little kids should look up to her.
April 25, 2008 at 8:12 pm
I am 14 and would really like to meet you so could you come to Jacksonville Florida and preform that would be awesome thanks! Your biggest fan Emily
April 27, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Taylor you are awsome u are my favorite yet. u have been my favorite science i first saw u. usually i would be over another singer but u are still #1
April 29, 2008 at 8:43 pm
LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEE
YOU!!!!!!
May 19, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I LOVE YOU AND YOUR MUSIC!!! YOU ARE AN INSPERATION TO ME. I EVEN ROTE MY OWN SONG CALLED TAYLOR SWIFT. I WAS SHOCKED TO FIND OUT THAT YOUR GRANDMA WAS AN OPERA SINGER. WHAT ALSO AS SHOCKING WAS THAT YOU SANG AT THE 76RS AT AGE 11!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WOULD HAVE BEEEN VERY NERVE RECKING BUT NOT FOR YOU. WHAT WAS THE REASON THAT YOU WROTE A SONG ABOUT TIM MCRAW????? Y DIDN’T YOU SING OPERA LIKE YOUR GRANDMA??? Y DID YOU GO COUNTRY. I ALSO HAVE WORTEN A SONG CALLED OUR AONG TO. I HAVE A BOYFRIEND AND HE SAID THAT OUR SONG IS THE SCHOOL BELL RINGING. ISN’T THAT SO SWEET!!!!!!!!! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. WE HAD OUR FIRST KISS ON FRIDAY!! IT AS SO AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
May 21, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I♥ Taylor Swift i think she is so amazing and she’s not fake i just want to be like her!!!!!!!!!!! Plus i would ♥ if she would come to IN.
September 21, 2008 at 5:52 pm
OMH taylor is sooooo gorgeous!!
October 11, 2008 at 10:27 pm
omg ur my favorite singer in the hole world, our song is my favorite song
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U ROCK TAYLOR SWIFT ur the best singer ever and i want to meat u soooooo bad
i live in wasilla, alaska u should come down here and visit.
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November 28, 2008 at 1:57 am
how did you do your hair in your music video in the song love story could you send me a picture of it because i want to have my hair done like that for snowball dance this year And i love your songs i have your album and i am singing your song for the talent show at school reading elementry school.
November 28, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Taylor Swift is the Coolest. I’m listening to “Love Story” on the T.V. right now. Keep rockin out taylor and I love you. I saw you in concert at the indianapolis indiana football stadium for the FFA concert. You rocked that whole stadium. Keep up the hard work.
P.S. I know almost all your songs by heart.
Love ya Justin
December 4, 2008 at 9:05 pm
You should totally go out with Jo Jones! u would look great together. Love ya. u rock. keep it up!
December 7, 2008 at 7:21 pm
hey waz up taytay i love your songs my fav is tear drops on my guitar will you send me your autograph to po.box 3 bellmorein oh and you are so beautiful love ya byebye.
jenny overton
December 11, 2008 at 12:13 am
i love u taylor swift u rock i want to be just like u u rock I LOVE THE SONG LOVE STORY I AM LISTENING TO IT NOW I AM
YOUR BIGGIST FAN TRULY
December 26, 2008 at 12:46 am
hey taylor i love you so much i want to go to like all of your concerts.
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December 28, 2008 at 2:49 am
I LOVEEEEEEEEEEE UUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!TAYLOR!!!!!!!!!!I LOVE UR SONGS!!!!
December 30, 2008 at 4:50 pm
i lllllllllllllloooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeee taylor swift she is the greatest singer in the whole wide world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 8, 2009 at 3:16 pm
i love your music. i like the song called love story.
January 25, 2009 at 12:20 am
hey taylor ur my fav singer (my fav band is the jobros, sorry bout the break-up) is ur e-mail address posted on ur website? luv ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ur biggest fan have all of ur cd’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
p.s. have u seen twilight??? cause if u havn’t seen it then ur not my fav singer anymore (jk) but sereusly GO SEE TWILIGHT have u at least read the books i’m on New Moon right now (the 2nd one) READ THE BOOKS THEN SEE THE MOVIE OR THE OTHER WAY AROUND i did it the other way around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! luv ya ur biggest fan
January 28, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I am such a big fan of you. You are so hot I love you
January 28, 2009 at 11:55 pm
i heart taylor swift
January 29, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Dear ,Taylor
I love your songs. I look up to you as
my hero.
Taylor(male)
February 6, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Dear Taylor swift
I just want to say that I like your song very much and I also like your picture because I also look up to you as my very own hero and so you are a pretty lady that could sing very well and I like that and so yeah and I like you as my favorite carter and so yep.
February 8, 2009 at 9:00 pm
hi taylor i lllllllllllllooooooooooooovvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeee you i am your biggest fan you are my role madel
February 14, 2009 at 10:24 am
i really like the song love story..
the music makes me remember something!!
keep up the good job..
i’m looking forward on you’re new songs..
February 18, 2009 at 11:48 am
she was so amazed me !
so beautiful .
Love u Taylor !!!
February 20, 2009 at 1:37 am
Hi Taylor,
I am 8 years old and I love how you sing and write songs so much! I live in Altus, Oklahoma. My grandmother painted a caricature of Sandi Spika and took it to the Big Machine Record office last June. I thought that was so cool. My uncle lived in Nashville and his good friend is Amy, who has the Flavour Shop – I want to go there sometime. You are so pretty and I hope I can meet you sometime. love, jordan
February 20, 2009 at 1:51 pm
omg!!! i am doing a biography on taylor swift!!! i dont think this is taylor swift herself, but this website really helped me out!!!!!! she is sooo gooooddddd!!!!!! she is really pretty 2!!!!!! her hair is so freakin curly! haahaa!!!!
March 10, 2009 at 3:25 am
hai.,.,. tAlyor.,., youre so beautiful..,.
i love your songs…,!!!!
especially your “teardrops n my guitar”.,
god bless you.,!!1 mwaaaah.,!!!
March 12, 2009 at 7:14 pm
OMG TAYLOR I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. ME AND MY FRIEND MARGRET LISTEN TO YOU ALL THE TIME. WE ARE YOUR BIGGEST FANS EVER AND WANT TO SEE YOU IN EVERY CONCERT. CAN YOU GET US BACKSTAGE PASSES PLEASE SO WE CAN MEET YOU CAUSE YOU ARE OUR IDOL!!!!!!!
ME-MARY
March 12, 2009 at 10:35 pm
The whole of the Fearless album is great, but my favorite is Change. When I am running on the treadmill and I make it through to that song, no matter how tired I am, or how much pain I am in this song lifts me up. A chill starts around the lyrics of they might be better, we’re faster and never scared, and builds to a climax with the lyrics there something in your eyes says we can beat this.
I wish this would start playing on the radio, Country music is great and I do love it, but this is one that is fairly upbeat and great. When can we all expect for it to start airing?