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| Born | Taylor Alison Swift December 13, 1989 |
| Other names | Nils Sjöberg |
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| Years active | 2004–present |
| Net worth | US$365 million (2020 estimate) |
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| Awards | Full list |
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| Origin | Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
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| Website | taylorswift |
Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift a singer, songwriter, producer, philanthropist, and actress American. Raised in Wyomissing ( Pennsylvania ),
She released her second album, Fearless, in 2008. The album was a huge success for singles like " Love Story " and " You Belong with Me ". Fearless was the 2009 best-selling album in the United States. The album won 4 Grammy Awards. Swift also became the youngest singer to be a Grammy winner of the album of the year until 2020. Fearless also received the applause of the year at the American Music Awards, the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Country Music Association Awards, which it became the most awarded album in the history of country music .
In 2010 he released his third album, Speak Now, which sold a million copies in its first week in the United States. He then embarked on his Speak Now World Tour, which included many dates and which was attended by more than 2 million followers. The first singles, " Mine " and " Back to December " were well received on the charts, while the album's third single, " Mean, " won two Grammys.
In 2012, he released his fourth album, Red, which sold 1.2 million copies in its first week in the United States. The first single, " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, " became Swift's first song to reach # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, while the third single, " I Knew You Were Trouble, " It garnered even greater success internationally. His fifth album, 1989, much more focused on pop was released in October 2014 and sold more copies in its first week than any other album released in the last twelve years, with 1,280,000, making Swift the first and only artist to have three albums with sales. over a million copies in one week. The first single, " Shake It Off, " debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed four weeks at the top, until her second single " Blank Space " reached number 1, beating her previous single. With this Swift made history, becoming the first woman in the Billboard Hot 100's fifty-six years to dethrone her own song and replace herself in the first place. to the third single from the album, " Style " received critical acclaim and entered the top 10 of various charts. Meanwhile, the fourth single, " Bad Blood ", held the record for the most viewed video in a day in the entire history of YouTube, with more than twenty million views, in addition to being the fourth single by Swift to reach number 1 of Billboard Hot 100 because of its digital sales. And also to mention that the promotional tour for the album.
The 1989 World Tour has raised $ 250 million on four continents making it the tour with the most tickets sold in 2015. 3 This makes 1989on the most successful album of Taylor Swift's career, with sales of more than 10 million and all her singles in the top 10 . 4 The album won 3 Grammy Awards including Album of the Year, making Swift the first female artist to have received the award in this category twice.
She is known for writing great narrative songs and compositions about her personal experiences. As a songwriter, she has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Composers Hall of Fame. Other Swift accomplishments include ten Grammy Awards, one Emmy, 25 Billboard Music Awards, 30 American Music Awards, one Brit Award, six MTV Video Music Awards, eleven Country Music Association Awards, as well as two Golden Globe nominations. Until 2015, it has sold more than 50 million albums and 150 million digital downloads of its singles, making it one of the artists with the highest record sales in the world.
In addition to her long musical career, she appeared as a guest actress in an episode of the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2009), she acted in the comedy film Valentine's Day (2010), in the animated film The Lorax (2012) in which provided her voice for Audrey's character, and had a supporting role in the movie The Giver (2014). As a philanthropist, she supports arts education, children's literacy, natural disaster relief funds, feminism, LGBT rights, and charities for sick children.
Due to various factors, such as her impact on the world of music, her great commercial success and her media influence, she was named in 2019 as the "woman of the decade" by Billboard Magazine, while at the American Music Awards she was recognized as the "artist of the decade". According to data provided by IFPI, she is the most successful female artist of the 2010s.
Musical Life and Career
Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania. Its name comes from singer James Taylor . Swift has a brother named Austin. His father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a financial advisor to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch, he grew up in Pennsylvania and is a descendant of three generations of bank presidents.
October November Meanwhile, his mother Andrea Swift-nee Gardner Finlay-, December She is a stay at home mom who worked as a marketing executive in an investment fund. Despite being an American, Swift's mother spent her first ten years of life in Singapore, before returning to the United States and settling in Texas, later in December 2014, she was diagnosed with cancer.
Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Cumru. He attended preschool and elementary at Alvernia Montessori School, taught by nons Franciscans, before moving to The Wyndcroft School. Swift and his brother were raised as Presbyterians attending the School Bible School every summer. Later, she and her family moved into a rental house in Wyomissing. Already installed, Swift began studying at West Reading Elementary Center and Wyomissing Area Junior / Senior High School. 20 In summers, she used to hang out at her parents' beach house in Stone Harbor, New Jersey., which he described as "the place where most of my childhood memories were formed."
At the age of nine, Swift began to take an interest in musical theater, participating in various productions of the Berks Youth Theater Academy. She also traveled regularly for singing and acting classes to Broadway.
Influenced by Shania Twain , Swift drew her attention to country music , leading her to participate in local festivals, cafes, fairs and karaokes. November Sometime later, and after repeated failures. He won a local talent contest, which gave him the opportunity to serve as the opening act for musician Charlie Daniels, during his time in Strausstown .
On June 14, he released the second single " You Need to Calm Down ]". 77 Swift gave a surprise performance at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village , Manhattan, to commemorate Stonewall 50 - WorldPride NYC 2019 . 78 On July 23, he released a promotional single for the album, titled " The Archer ]". 79 On August 16, he released the album's title track as his third single. 80 At the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards , Swift received twelve nominations, three of them for the "Me!" Award and nine for "You Need to Calm Down," including Video of the Year.. " Lover " was released as the third single on August 16, which became the album's third consecutive Hot 100 top-10 single.
2006-2008: Taylor Shift and Early Success
Taylor Swift was the first self-titled studio album by country singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The album was released on October 24, 2006, under the Big Machine Records label. Swift wrote the songs for the album during her freshman year of high school and has written the credits on all the songs on the albums including songs co-written with Liz Rose. Swift experimented with recording the album with many producers, ultimately choosing the producer who produced their demo, Nathan Chapman. Musically, the album is country and pop music-style, and lyrically, it talks about romantic relationships, a pair Swift wrote observing relationships before being in one.
Taylor also recorded a Christmas EP called Sounds of the Season, which was released on October 16, 2007, which was exclusively available from Target Corporation and was the hit of her debut album. She was nominated for a Grammy in 2008 in the category of Best Upcoming Singer, but the award was won by Amy Winehouse. Her fourth single, " Picture to Burn, " was released in early 2008 and ranked third on the Billboard Country Chart in the spring of the same year. Big Machine Records announced on March the release of " Should've Said No ", the fifth and final single from the Taylor Swift album
2008-2010: Fame and Fearless
In the summer of 2008, Beautiful Eyes, an EP that was sold exclusively at Wal-Mart, was released.
In its first week on sale, it sold 45,000 copies, debuting at # 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart and # 9 on Billboard 200.
The second studio album, Fearless, was released in the United States on November 11 , 2008. 33 All songs on the album are rewritten or co-written by Taylor. So far the album has been one of the best sellers in the United States with 6,173,000 copies sold between November 2008 and May 2010 and exceeds 10,000,000 worldwide.
In addition to being featured in Madison Square Garden with this album as well. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 700,000 copies in its first week as the best-selling country music album, and the fourth best-selling album in 2008.
Her first single " Love Story " quickly became a hit on pop and country charts. During the first week, over 1,029,000 copies of Fearless were sold online, making it the best-selling music album digitally during its first week on sale. 35 Being the second album with the most copies sold digitally in its first week since Nielsen SoundScan started in 2004. 36 After eight weeks, Fearless had sold more than 4,768,467 copies online. His debut album beating it had sold 236,046 until April 18 , 2009.
The single "Change" was selected as part of the soundtrack to support the US delegation at the 2008 Beijing Olympics . 38 On September 12, " Love Story " the most successful single from the album debuted . The video for the song is based on Romeo and Juliet . The song was the second most downloaded on the iTunes Store Top Downloaded Songs and the fourth on the Billboard Hot 100.
In her first week, seven Fearless songs entered the Billboard Hot 100 , tying Hannah Montana as the female artist with the most songs on the Billboard Hot 100 in one week. The single " White Horse " ranked thirteenth, being Swift's sixth single to reach the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 in his debut, out of the thirteen songs on Fearless , a total of eleven reached the Billboard Hot 100. 36 I mean
Fifteen weeks after being featured on pop music stations, "Love Story" became the first country music song to reach number one on the Nielsen BDS CHR / Top 40 chart in the list's sixteen-year history. , also reached number one on the Mediabase Top 40 Chart. 39 Fearless' second single , " White Horse, " debuted on December 8, 2008.
The video premiered on CMT on February 7, 2009. Although it did not rank first on Billboard's Hot Country Songs, it did on the USA Today / Country Aircheck chart in April 2009. 40 "Forever and Always", another song by FearlessIt is based on the relationship of Swift and Joe Jonas . 41
Swift was ranked number seven on Nielsen SoundScan Canada's top-10 selling artists in 2008. The same year, her albums Taylor Swift and Fearless topped the Year-End Canadian Country Albums Chart. 42 of 2009 made her first appearance on Saturday Night Live , being the youngest country music singer to appear in the show's thirty-three year history. 43 44 In its appearance the program had the highest audience in two months. 45
At the forty-fourth edition of the Academy of Country Music Awards, Swift received the Album of the Year award for Fearless making her the youngest artist to receive it. Swift also won the Crystal Milestone Award , for her outstanding achievements in country music. The academy praised his achievements including having sold more albums in 2008 than any other artist in any music genre, the huge success of his debut album (which had five singles in the Top 10, more than any other artist in its premiere), and for the worldwide success of his single " Love Story ". The Academy also praised her for bringing country music closer to young people. 46
MTV Video Music Awards 2009
In the awards granted by the MTV network, she received the award for Best Female Video (thanks to her single " You Belong with Me "), played between Beyoncé , Katy Perry , Kelly Clarkson , Lady GaGa and Pink . But while on stage giving a small speech, she was interrupted by singer Kanye West who showed her rejection and claimed that the award was deserved by Beyoncé . Minutes later Beyoncé won the award for Best Video of the Year, and upon receiving the award, he called Taylor Swift, hugged her warmly and left her minutes so that he could give his thanks. 56
Grammy Awards 2010
In 2010, Taylor Swift was nominated for 8 Grammy Awards, being the second artist with the most nominations, only behind Beyoncé's 10 . Of them she won half, 4, in the categories: Best Female Country Performance (" White Horse "), Best Country Song (" White Horse "), Best Country Album ( Fearless ), and finally, the award considered the most important : Best Album of the Year ( Fearless ), being the second youngest singer to win a Grammy for album of the year being 20 at the time of the award
2010-2012: Speak now and International Tour
In early 2010 , Taylor made her feature film debut in the movie Valentine's Day with a supporting role. For the film's official soundtrack, Taylor collaborated on a new track, "Today Was a Fairytale," which sold 1,000,000 copies in its first week, being the song by the best-selling female solo artist in its first week and the fifth of the entire history of music. Shortly thereafter, Taylor collaborated with John Mayer on the third single from their Battle Studies album : " Half of My Heart ."
On July 20, 2010, Taylor Swift announced in a digital meeting with her fans that her third album, titled Speak Now , would be released onOctober 25 of that same year. The album, on which Taylor spent 2 years working, consists of 14 songs written by herself. The first single from the new album was " Mine " and although it was initially scheduled to go on sale on August 16 , 2010 , the song was leaked online, so the production company decided to release it immediately, finally coming out on August 4 .
The 7 of September of 2010 confirmed the first dates of the tour, which would begin in February 2011 in Osaka , Japan . The tour consisted of a total of 111 concerts in 18 countries around the world, and ended in 2012 .
In Spain , he performed the 19 of March of 2011 , at the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid , his first visit to Spain .
2012-2014: Network
Taylor previously revealed via Twitter that she was already recording new music for her latest album; She mentioned that the name was not ready, but that she already had several songs recorded.
The album was released on October 22, 2012. Taylor had mentioned that she wanted to do something different with this album, take a turn. The name of this new album is Red . From this album came the first single " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together " released on August 13, 2012, after the live chat, where he revealed the name of the album and his new single, as well as some details of the music video . Finally, after years of career and important songs, he achieved with this single his first number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
On September 7, 2012, she launched her single "Ronan" dedicated to a boy who died of cancer at age 4 at the "Stand Up to Cancer" gala, inspired by a letter from the boy's mother. 58I don't know
Four weeks before the album was released, he counted down 4 songs, previewing them on Good Morning America on Monday, and officially releasing the song on Tuesday. The first was " Begin Again ", followed by " Red ", the album's title track, " I Knew You Were Trouble " and " State Of Grace ", the latter released a week before the CD was released.
On March 13, 2013, the Red Tour began with fifty-eight presentations in forty-five different cities. Red was nominated for a 2014 Grammy for "Album of the Year" and "Best Country Album".
2014-2017: 1989
Swift started writing songs for her fifth studio album in July 2013. 59 In November 2013, the singer told Billboard that “There are probably seven or eight [songs] that I know I want on the album. I'm very excited that it evolved into a new sound, and that's all I wanted. " She is working with Max Martin and Johan Shellback again, this time writing "much more than three songs together." Diane Warren and Ryan Tedder have also worked on the album, with Tedder commenting: "For anyone who doubts it, she writes her own material. She is probably the composer fastest I've ever met in my life" .63 Swift has also expressed an interest in collaborating with Sia , Jack Anton off and Imogen Heap for the album. 64 65 Swiftalso contribute music to the soundtrack of the upcoming musical stage. 66 Swift hired a new publicist after separating from his longtime spokesman, Paula Erickson, in early 2014.
Swift announced the details of her fifth studio album during a Yahoo , live broadcast event on August 18, 2014. As the date approached, she hired a professional Skywriter to leave a message in the city sky of New York with "# TAYLORSWIFTYAHOO4DAY".
2017-2018: Reputation
In August 2017, after several months of absence, Taylor Swift presented the video for Look What You Made Me Do , the first single from her new album Reputation., which broke various records such as being the most viewed video clip on YouTube in the first 24 hours with more than 43 million views and which was released on November 10, 2017. The album sold 1.2 million copies in its first week in USA The singles "... Ready for it?" Came off the album.
Which debuted in the top 5 of the list of best-selling songs in the US, the collaboration with Ed Sheeran and rapper Future, "End Game" and the radio hit "Delicate" whose video has more than 300 million reproductions. The song was critically acclaimed and considered the best on the album. The album "Reputation" had great commercial success, which led her to win two Billboard Awards for her sales in the United States in 2018.
2019-Present: Lover and Miss American
Swift released " Me! " On April 26, 2019, as the lead single from her seventh studio album, Lover . the song has the collaboration of the vocalist of Panic! at the Disco Brendon Urie and was co-written by Swift with Joel Little and Urie. The song debuted at number 100 on the Billboard Hot 100 after three days of its release, and jumped to number two week next hop -the single biggest week in the history of the Hot 100's. The music video for "Me!" Broke a Vevo record by racking up 65.2 million views on its first day of release.
Lover launched on August 23 with positive reviews, and debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 with a first week count of 867,000 units, including 679,000 copies sold, making Swift the first female artist in history to have six albums that sell over 500,000 copies in a single week. It also sold more copies than all other 199 albums on the list that week combined. 86 All of the 18 songs on the album entered Billboard's Hot 100 , setting the record for most simultaneous chart entries for a female artist.
In the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards , the videos for "Me!" and "You Need to Calm Down" received twelve nominations. "I!" It won the Best Visual Effects Award and "You Need to Calm Down" won the Video of the Year , making Swift the second artist and the first female artist to win the Best Video With Social Message Award. 88 Lover has received three nominations at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards , including Best Pop Vocal Album and Song of the Year for his theme song.
In November 2019, Swift said that Braun and Big Machine founder Scott Borchetta prevented him from performing his oldest songs at the 2019 American Music Awards., where she would receive the Artist of the Decade award, as well as use old material for the Netflix documentary Taylor Swift: Miss American .
Big Machine denied the allegations in general terms in a statement and accused Swift of owing "millions of dollars and multiple assets" to the label.
In response, representatives of Swift published correspondence showing an executive of Big Machine refused to grant licenses for the documentary and declared that Big Machine Swift owes nearly $ 8 million in unpaid royalties.
On November 18, Big Machine released a statement that "it agreed to grant all licenses for its artists' performances to broadcast the show and rebroadcast them on mutually approved platforms" for the American Music Awards, though it did not mention Swift by name.
In November Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the original song " Beautiful Ghosts " for the film Cats (2019), which received a nomination for Best Original Song at the 77th Golden Globe Awards .
In December, they released a single. Christmas, " Christmas Tree Farm " and participated as Bombalurina in the film adaptation of the musical Cats by Lloyd Webber. 100 The film received negative reviews, though Swift's brief role was singled out as a hit; David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter , he stated, Swift "shines in his role as a song, descending from a broken skylight into a theatrical crescent moon, spraying glitter for cats."
On January 28, 2020, she would release the fourth single from the Lover The Man era , a song that talks about feminism and gender roles and was praised by critics. Spencer Kornhaber of The Atlantic described The Man as "one of the most direct and catchy songs" by Lover, and called it "Swift's most explicit musical statement about sexism." Raisa Bruner of Time, described the song as "an explosive and powerful bomb", which is "an anthem for anyone who feels blocked by the sexist double standards".
Personal Life
Wealth
Swift live in a three bedroom duplex in downtown Nashville ( Tennessee ) and a three - bedroom house in Beverly Hills ( California ). She owns an eight-bedroom summer home on the Watch Hill, Rhode Island coast .
In addition, Swift bought a four - bedroom mansion in Belle Meade ( Tennessee ) for their parents. She also owns a private Dassault Falcon 900 jet and a hangar at Nashville International Airport .
According to The Celebrity 100 list magazine Forbes , which publishes an annual list of 100 celebrities and financially influential celebrities, Swift won 18 million dollars in 2009, 45 million in 2010, 45 million in 2011, 57 million in 2012, 55 million in 2013, 64 million in 2014, 80 million in 2015, and raised 170 million in 2016, being the highest paid celebrity that year.
In 2017 would earn 44 million, 80 million in 2018, and again becoming the best paid celebrity of the year, 185 million in 2019.
Relations
Swift had a relationship with singer Joe Jonas from August to October 2008, and actor Taylor Lautner from October to December 2009. From late 2009 to 2010 had a relationship with American musician John Mayer . Dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal from October to December 2010. After their breakup, they were spotted together in January and February 2011. Then he went to the politician Conor Kennedy from July to September 2012.
After his break with Connor Kennedy, he had a brief relationship with British singer Harry Styles, from late October 2012 to early January 2013. Then I had an affair with Calvin Harris, for over a year until March 2016. 153 had an affair from June until late July 2016 with actor Tom Hiddleston. Since September 2016, he maintains a relationship with actor and model Joe Alwyn.
Politics
Swift says she registered to vote on her eighteenth birthday. During the 2008 presidential election, supported the campaign "Every Woman Counts" aimed at involving women in the political process and was one of the many country stars who recorded a public service announcement for the vote.
After the inauguration of President Barack Obama, Rolling Stone magazine published the experience that the singer had supporting the President:
In 2012, Swift was honored at the Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards for her charitable work with Michelle Obama , who praised her for being a person who “has shot herself to the top of the music industry but still keeps her feet on the I am someone who has broken all expectations of what a 22-year-old girl can achieve. ” Swift described the first lady as a role model.
In a 2012 interview, Swift commented that although she tries to stay polite and informed, she doesn't like to talk about politics as it could influence other people.
Musical influence
Swift stated in 2006 after the release of her eponymous debut album that she had been interested in country music since she was a child and that her main influences are Tim McGraw and Shania Twain and that she was inspired by the lyrical composition of LeAnn Rimes.
In 2012, when she released I Knew You Were Trouble and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together , several critics compared her to Katy Perry and Avril Lavigne.
When he stopped doing country music, Swift was inspired by P! Nk , the album Like a Prayer(1989) from " La Reina del Pop " Madonna and in the pop of the '80s and the 2010s to be able to make her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014).
In the music video for Shake It Off you can see that Swift dresses and dances with other people paying tribute to Lady Gaga , DJ Skrillex and P! Nk .
Discography
Taylor Swift (2006)
Fearless (2008)
Speak Now (2010)
Red (2012)
1989 (2014)
Reputation (2017)
Lover (2019)
Filmography
Valentine's Day (2010)
The Lorax (2012)
The Giver (2014)
Cats (2019)
Miss Americana (2020)
Tours
Fearless Tour (2009–2010)
Speak Now World Tour (2011–2012)
The Red Tour (2013–2014)
The 1989 World Tour (2015)
Reputation Stadium Tour (2018)
Lover Fest (2021)
