Taylor Swift: A Biography

By Mark Avery

In the 16 year span of Taylor Swift’s professional career, she has seen success, failures, and drama galore. From her humble beginnings in suburban Pennsylvania to Nashville, Tennessee and New York City, Swift has become a household name around the world. She has seen hundreds of award nominations and wins, as well as record-shattering albums, singles, and music videos.
Though she started as a musician, Swift’s career has taken her down many creative paths including songwriting, acting, and producing music, among many others. She has been involved in a number of celebrity feuds and plenty of drama (most notably the Kanye debacle). Along with the feuds, Swift has also made charity and philanthropic ventures a large part of her career and continues to do so.
Even after everything she has been through, Swift remains a beacon of light, a role model, and an example for children and adults around the world. She makes a concerted effort to be aware of her influence on young people and has donated millions of dollars to young fans in need. Safe to say that Taylor Swift is a role model in more than just her musical talents and abilities.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Avery
• Release date: Jan 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005575434

Mark Avery

Mark Avery has combined bird watching with a career as a biologist. Since graduating from Cambridge University he has studied at Oxford and Aberdeen Universities and worked on Great Tit song, food-hoarding by Marsh Tits, foraging and social behaviour of Bee-eaters and hibernation of pipistrelle bats. Mark joined the RSPB staff in 1986 to work in the Flow Country and is now a Senior Research Biologist for the Society working on scientific aspects of land-use, international and marine issues.

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Taylor Swift Biography

Chapter 1: Early Life and Childhood

Taylor Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania to Scott Kingsley Swift and Andrea Gardner Swift. Her younger brother Austin Kingsley Swift was born on March 11, 1992. She spent many years of her childhood on a Christmas tree farm that her family owned.

Swift showed an interest in music and performing at a very young age, and music definitely runs in her family. Her grandmother was an opera singer, and young Taylor hoped to follow in her footsteps. She began performing at the young age of 10, and the rest, as they say, was history.

Those first performances ignited a deep passion for performing and especially singing that launched her career into what it is today. Swift’s first major performance was at 11 years old when she sang the Star-Spangled Banner at a 76ers basketball game.

By the age of 12, Swift was writing her own songs, learning to play guitar, and performing almost constantly. It was around this time that she and her family took their first trip to Nashville, Tennessee. While in Nashville, Swift and her family sought out someone who would sign her to a record deal, and they made plans to move