Taylor Swift biography

Originally from Pennsylvania, Taylor Swift grew up in Reading then moved to the town of Wyomissing where she joined the Wyomissing Area Junior / Senior High School. Passionate about horse riding, she takes part in many horse shows, but quickly turns to the music hall.

Determined to make music her profession, the apprentice artist goes through auditions, but in vain, no door opens in her path. It was then on Broadway that she decided to register to improve her skills, with the program: singing and dancing lessons. Very quickly, she has an admiration for country music and sees this style as a good way to stand out on the music scene.

Festival tours, first contacts with labels, promising beginnings in composition ... Taylor Swift is an ambitious teenager who does not want to miss any opportunity to make a name for herself. At fourteen, she forced her family to move to Nashville, Tennessee, home to the RCA Records label, with whom she signed a contract and then retracted to join the independent label Big Machine Records, which released her first studio album, Taylor. Swift, in 2006. Fearless (2008), Speak Now (2010) and Red (2012) followed.

Lyricist, composer, singer and performer, Taylor Swift has accumulated to date no less than seven Grammy Awards, eleven American Music Awards, seven Country Music Association Awards, six Academy of Country Music Awards and thirteen BMI Awards. And at twenty-four, the young American has already sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.

In 2009, it was television and cinema that approached him. She appears in the sixteenth episode of season nine of CSI, where she plays Haley Jones, a sixteen-year-old girl found stabbed in the parking lot of the hotel belonging to her parents. The following year, she landed the role of Félicia, a completely crazy high school cheerleader, in the romantic comedy Valentine's Day.

Then, the animation cinema takes hold of its soft voice. In the ecological fable Le Lorax (2012), she lends her stamp to Audrey, the redhead girlfriend of Ted, the hero. In 2014, the singer joined the four-star cast of the sci-fi film The Giver, in which she played the daughter of Jeff Bridges.

Read More