She has donated items to several charities for auction, including the UNICEF Tap Project and MusiCares. In 2007, Swift partnered with the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police to launch a campaign to protect children from online predators. Also a promoter of children's literacy, she has donated money and books to various schools around the country to improve education. colleges, and $100,000 to the Nashville Symphony.
She has donated $75,000 to Nashville's Hendersonville High School to help refurbish the school auditorium, $4 million to fund the building of a new education center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, $60,000 to the music departments of six U.S. She is a benefactor of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
She promoted her debut album extensively as the opening act for other country musicians' tours throughout 20, including George Strait, Brad Paisley, and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. Swift also released two EPs, The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection in October 2007 and Beautiful Eyes in July 2008. "Teardrops on My Guitar" reached number thirteen on the U.S. With "Our Song", Swift became the youngest person to single-handedly write and sing a number-one song on the chart. All appeared on Billboard's Hot Country Songs, with "Our Song", and "Should've Said No" reaching number one. Following "Tim McGraw", four more singles were released throughout 20: "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Our Song", "Picture to Burn" and "Should've Said No". Borchetta said that although record industry peers initially disapproved of his signing a 15-year-old singer-songwriter, Swift tapped into a previously unknown market-teenage girls who listen to country music. She spent much of 2006 promoting Taylor Swift with a radio tour, television appearances, and opening for Rascal Flatts on select dates during their 2006 tour after they fired their previous opening act, Eric Church, for playing longer than his allotted time. in the 2000s decade.īig Machine Records was still in its infancy during the June 2006 release of the lead single, "Tim McGraw" Swift and her mother helped "stuff the CD singles into envelopes to send to radio." As there were not enough furniture at the label yet, they would sit on the floor to do so. Billboard 200, where it spent 157 weeks-the longest stay on the chart by any release in the U.S. Swift's firm, pleading voice." Taylor Swift peaked at number five on the U.S. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times described it as "a small masterpiece of pop-minded country, both wide-eyed and cynical, held together by Ms. Taylor Swift was released on October 24, 2006. She wrote three of the album's songs alone, and co-wrote the remaining eight with Rose, Robert Ellis Orrall, Brian Maher, and Angelo Petraglia. Swift persuaded Big Machine to hire her demo producer Nathan Chapman, with whom she felt she had the right "chemistry". She began working on her eponymous debut album shortly after. Becoming one of the first signings at Big Machine, she wanted "the kind of attention that a little label will give," and her father purchased a three-percent stake in the company for an estimated $120,000. The family moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.Īt an industry showcase at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe in 2005, Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a DreamWorks Records executive who was preparing to form an independent record label, Big Machine Records. She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by the Bernadine Franciscan sisters, before transferring to The Wyndcroft School. Swift spent her early years on a Christmas tree farm that her father purchased from one of his clients. Swift's paternal great-great-grandfather was an Italian immigrant entrepreneur and community leader who opened several businesses in Philadelphia in the 1800s. Her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, was an opera singer.
She was named after singer-songwriter James Taylor, and has Scottish and German heritage. Her younger brother, Austin, is an actor. Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a former stockbroker for Merrill Lynch her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), is a former homemaker who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive. Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, at the Reading Hospital in West Reading, Pennsylvania.
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