Taylor Swift is a country-pop musician and one of the most popular stars of the 21st century. Already at the age of 19, she received the Grammy, becoming the youngest recipient of this award. Striking appearance, unique style, and strong character – it is for these qualities that millions of fans around the world love her. Taylor Swift, whose biography is full of bright events, today has more than 200 music awards on her account – a record number for such a young American singer.
Becoming a celebrity
In Taylor’s hometown, there were no opportunities to make music professionally, so the Swift family, believing in their daughter’s success, moved to one of the suburbs of Nashville, a city in Tennessee that is rightfully considered the capital of country music. Here she had the opportunity to study at individual lessons with Lil Rose, as well as perform on the street, standing under the windows of one of the popular cafes.
At this time, the girl was transferred to a private school called Aaron Academy, which allowed students to teach from home. This empowered young Taylor to study without stopping her constant participation in castings and concerts. She continued to actively engage in music, sending demos of her compositions to various studios, but she received her first contract only in 2004 with RCA Records. Later, this contract was terminated by Taylor herself, as the recording studio was going to wait for the girl to come of age before presenting her work to the public. But soon, playing guitar at a shop window, she met Scott Borchetta, who at that time had just opened and begun to advertise his recording studio, Big Machine Records.
He later signed a contract with Swift, and in 2006, under his label, she debuted her first single, “Tim McGraw”, and then, on October 24, the album “Taylor Swift”. Critics considered it successful, and listeners and future fans also received the new singer well. Taylor also received a local Nashville Award for Best Female Vocalist.
Career and creativity
Taylor’s Career Alison Swift Taylor’s stellar career has developed rapidly. Her first album went viral and went platinum five times, selling 5.5 million copies, and stayed in the top 200 in the United States for a full 234 weeks (almost five years), breaking the record of the last decade. Despite the rather banal themes of her lyrics: first love, growing up, and teenage problems, Taylor Swift was able to win the hearts of the audience and became a rising star of country style.
Advances in music and discography
For the next two years, the girl toured, simultaneously releasing a couple of studio discs: a Christmas EP album and a mini-disc entitled “Beautiful Eyes”. It was they who first brought her a Grammy nomination, but then the country singer lost to Amy Winehouse. In 2008, Taylor’s second studio album, “Fearless”, was released and quickly settled on first place in the top-selling albums in the United States, broke the record for the singer’s debut disc in sales, receiving six times platinum status, won four Grammy Awards, including the most valuable Album of the Year award.
In 2010, the artist’s third album was released – the famous “Speak Now”, which also topped the top 200 and became Taylor’s most successful work in terms of profit. Even then, she was known for being one of the few singers who wrote the lyrics for her compositions on her own – all 12 songs from the new album were no exception. Along with the usual country music, the album includes works in the style of alt-rock and bubblegum-pop.
The singer’s popularity was strengthened by her studio album “Red”, released in 2012, which spread her fame beyond the borders of her native country to all of Europe. In 2013, Taylor began touring in support of the album. In October, her single “Sweeter Than Fiction” served as the background music for the film “Dreams Come True” and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
In the winter of 2014, the world was presented with the next, already the fifth in a row, Taylor’s album – “1989”, in which she decided to change her style and try pop music. The following year, the famous singer was nominated for 7 Grammy awards, of which her songs and albums received 3, including the Best Album award – thus, Taylor became the first female performer to receive two such awards at once.
In the summer of 2017, the singer announced that her next album, “Reputation”, would be released on November 10. His first single, “Look What You Made Me Do”, was released on 24 August. On the first day, their music video with him on YouTube gained 43.2 million views, breaking the current record at that time. The entire album did indeed release on Taylor’s stated date, and instantly became the best-selling album of 2017.
In 2019, Taylor released the lead single for the album Lover, titled Me! Already in the first week, views of the video reached a record high of 65.2 million.
The artist successfully converts her popularity into material values, which the Forbes experts could not fail to note. And if in 2018 the singer took 2nd place in the rating of the magazine with an income of $ 80 million, then in 2019 it is already 1st place with an income of $ 185 million. The performer’s achievements were underlined by the American Music Awards in the “Artist of the Decade”.
The year of the pandemic has been surprisingly very fruitful for Taylor Swift. In the summer of 2020, the American singer surprised everyone by releasing a new album “Folklore” – virtually without any warnings or announcements, it became known less than a day before the release. This record showed Swift’s unexpected turn from stadium pop hits to laid-back indie folk. Bon Iver leader Justin Vernon and members of The National Aaron and Bryce Dessner worked with her on the disc. Critics immediately recognized this work as one of the best recordings of the year, but as it turns out, this was only the beginning.
On December 11, another, already the ninth album in Taylor Swift’s discography, entitled “Evermore”, was released on all streaming services. His announcement also came as a complete surprise to the singer’s fans.
