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                                                    𝑩𝑰𝑶𝑮𝑹𝑨𝑷𝑯𝒀  𝑶𝑭  𝑻𝑨𝒀𝑳𝑶𝑹  𝑺𝑾𝑰𝑭𝑻

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media His father, Scott Kingsley Swift, used to work as a financial advisor to Merrill Lynch, and his mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (Finlay's last name), a housewife who used to work as a joint fund sales executive. He has a younger brother named Austin. 

Awards

Swift has received many awards and honors, including 10 Grammy Awards,[429] 24 American Music Awards (most wins artist),[430] 23 Billboard Music Awards (most wins by a female artist alongside Beyoncé),[431] six Guinness World Records,[432] 12 Country Music Association Awards, eight Academy of Country Music Awards,[433] one Brit Award,[154] and one Emmy Award.[434] As a songwriter, she has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association[50][435] and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and was listed on Rolling Stone's 2015 list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time.[436][437] In 2019, Billboardplaced her on number 8 of its list of Greatest of All Time Artists, the highest for an artist that started in the 21st century.[438]

Swift has sold more than 50 million albums—including 32.7 million in the U.S.[439]—150 million single downloads,[440] and was one of the top five music artists with the highest worldwide digital sales.[144] Swift's studio albums Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, and 1989 have all sold over four million copies in the U.S.[441] She is the third best-selling digital singles artist in the U.S. with a total of 120 million equivalent units certified according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

Tours

• Fearless Tour (2009–2010)
• Speak Now World Tour (2011–2012)
• Red Tour (2013-2014)
• 1989 World Tour (2015-2016)
• Reputation Stadium Tour (2018)

Life and career

• 1989-2003 (early life)

     At age nine, Swift became interested in musical theater and performed in four Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions.She also traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons.Swift later shifted her focus toward country music inspired by Shania Twain's songs, which made her "want to just run around the block four times and daydream about everything."She spent her weekends performing at local festivals and events.

• 2004-2008 (career beginnings and Taylor swift)

     Swift won accolades for Taylor Swift. She was one of the recipients of the Nashville Songwriters Association's Songwriter/Artist of the Year in 2007, becoming the youngest person to be honored with the title.She also won the Country Music Association's Horizon Award for Best New Artist,the Academy of Country Music Awards' Top New Female Vocalist and the American Music Awards' Favorite Country Female Artist honor.She was also nominated for Best New Artist at the 2008 Grammy Awards. She opened for the Rascal Flatts on their 2008 summer and fall tour. In July of that year, Swift began a romance with singer Joe Jonas that ended three months later.

• 2008-2010 (Fearless and acting)

         Swift's second studio album, Fearless, was released on November 11, 2008.The lead single, "Love Story", was released in September 2008. It peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one in Australia.Four more singles were released throughout 2008 and 2009: "White Horse", "You Belong with Me", "Fifteen" and "Fearless". "You Belong with Me" was the album's highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number two.The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and was the top-selling album of 2009 in the United States.Swift's first concert tour, the Fearless Tour, promoted the album;it grossed over $63 million

• 2010-2014 (speak now and read)

         In August 2010, Swift released "Mine", the lead single from her third studio album, Speak Now. It entered the U.S. charts at number three, making Swift the second female artist in the history of the Hot 100 (after Mariah Carey) to debut multiple tracks in the top five in one year; the other was "Today Was a Fairytale" at number two.Swift wrote the album alone and co-produced every track.Speak Now, released on October 25, 2010,was a commercial success, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200, and becoming the 16th album to achieve opening week sales of one million copies.It became the fastest-selling digital album by a female artist, with 278,000 downloads in a week, earning Swift an entry in the 2010 Guinness World Records. She earned a second entry after she became the first woman to achieve 10 track debuts on the Billboard Hot 100.Three of the album's singles, "Mine", "Back to December", and "Mean", peaked in the top ten in Canada.Later in 2010, she briefly dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal.

• 2014 - 2017 (1989)

In March 2014, Swift relocated to New York City.Around this time, she was working on her fifth studio album, 1989, with co-writers Antonoff, Max Martin, Shellback, Imogen Heap, Ryan Tedder, and Ali Payami.She promoted the album through various campaigns, including inviting fans to secret album-listening sessions.[139] Credited as her "first documented, official pop album", it marked a departure from her country albums.The album was released on October 27, 2014, to positive reviews.

1989 sold 1.28 million copies in the U.S. during the first week of its release and debuted atop the Billboard 200. This made Swift the first act to have three albums sell more than one million copies in their opening release week, for which she earned another Guinness World Record.As of June 2017, 1989 had sold over 10 million copies worldwide.The lead single, "Shake It Off", was released in August 2014 and debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.The album generated two additional number-one singles—"Blank Space" and "Bad Blood" (featuring Kendrick Lamar)—as well as the top-ten entries "Style" and "Wildest Dreams", and other singles "Out of the Woods" and "New Romantics". "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood" also topped the charts in Australia and Canada.[59][84] After "Blank Space" reached number one in the U.S. following "Shake It Off", Swift became the first woman in the Hot 100's history to "succeed herself at the top spot".The music video for "Blank Space" was briefly the fastest video to reach one billion views on Vevo.The videos for "Blank Space" and "Bad Blood" earned four nominations at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. "Bad Blood" won Video of the Year and Best Collaboration.Swift's headlining tour, the 1989 World Tour, running from May to December 2015, grossed over $250 million, and was highest-grossing tour of the year.

• 2017 - 2019 (Reputation)

         In August 2017, Swift successfully sued David Mueller, a former morning show personality for Denver's KYGO-FM. Four years earlier, Swift had informed Mueller's bosses that he had sexually assaulted her by groping her at an event. After being fired, Mueller accused Swift of lying and sued her for damages from his loss of employment. Shortly after, Swift counter-sued for sexual assault. The jury rejected Mueller's claims and ruled in favor of Swift.[180] Swift thereafter cleared her social media accounts[181] and then released "Look What You Made Me Do" as the lead single from her sixth album, Reputation.[182] The song topped the charts in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.[183][184] Its music video had over 43.2 million views during its first day on YouTube, breaking the site's record for the most-viewed music video in 24 hours. On December 31, Reputation Stadium Tour, a concert film, was released on Netflix.

• 2019 (lover)

         

         Swift released "Me!", featuring Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco on April 26, 2019, as the lead single from her seventh studio album, Lover.[206][207] The song debuted at number 100 on the Billboard Hot 100 three days after its release, and jumped to number two the following week—the biggest single-week jump in the Hot 100's history.[208] The music video for "Me!" broke a Vevo record by amassing 65.2 million views within its first day of release.[209] On June 14, she released the second single "You Need to Calm Down", which debuted and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100,[210][211] and gave a surprise performance at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, to commemorate Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019.[212] On July 23, she released a promotional single from the album, "The Archer".[213] The title track was released as the third single on August 16.[214]

Lover was released on August 23 to positive reviews,[215] and debuted atop the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 679,000 copies.[216] Upon the album's release, all of its 18 songs entered the Billboard Hot 100, setting the record for the most simultaneous chart entries for a female artist.[217] It also sold more copies than all the other 199 albums on the chart combined that week.[218] At the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, the videos for "Me!" and "You Need to Calm Down" received twelve nominations. "Me!" won Best Visual Effects, and "You Need to Calm Down" won Video of the Year and Video for Good.[219] Swift was cast as Bombalurina in the movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, which will be released on December 20, 2019.[220] Swift and Lloyd Webber wrote the original song "Beautiful Ghosts" for the film, which was released on November 15.https://canva.me/wJoPmAuH51