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Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania.Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a stockbroker for Merri
ll Lynch her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift, was a homemaker who had worked as a mutual fund marketing executive.Swift, who has said she
has Scottish heritage was named after the singer-songwriter James Taylor.She has a younger brother named Austin Kingsley Swift, who is
an actor.Swift spent her early years on a Christmas tree farm, which her father purchased from one of his clients.She attended preschool
and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by the Bernadine Franciscan sisters,before transferring to The Wyndcroft School.
The family moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania,where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior Senior High
School.
At an industry showcase at Nashvilles Bluebird Cafe in 2005, Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a DreamWorks Records executiv
e who was preparing to form an independent record label, Big Machine Records. She had first met Borchetta in 2004.Swift became one of
Big Machines first signings, and her father purchased a three-percent stake in the company for an estimated $120,000.She began working on
her eponymous debut album shortly after. Swift persuaded Big Machine to hire her demo producer Nathan Chapman, with whom she felt she ha
d the right chemistry.She wrote three of the albums songs alone, and co-wrote the remaining eight with Rose, Robert Ellis Orrall, Brian
Maher, and Angelo Petraglia.Taylor Swift was released on October 24, 2006.Jon Caramanica of The New York Times described it as a small ma
sterpiece of pop-minded country, both wide-eyed and cynical, held together by Ms. Swifts firm, pleading Taylor Swift peaked at number fiv
e on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States, spending 157 weeks there—the longest stay on the chart by any release in the U.
S. that decade.As of August 2016, the album had sold over 7.75 million copies worldwid
Swifts 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 albums highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 1
00, 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
.Swifts first concert tour, the Fearless Tour, promoted the album it grossed over $63 million.Taylor Swift: Journey to Fearless, a concer
t film, was aired on television and later released on DVD and Blu-ray.Swift also performed as a supporting act for Keith Urbans Escape T
ogether World Tour.