Whole Caboodle :): Taylor Alison Swift :)

Name: Taylor Alison Swift
Birthday: December 13, 1989
Age: 20 years old
Zodiac Sign: Virgo
Hometown: Reading, Wymossing, Pennsylvania
First Single: "Tim McGraw"
Albums: Taylor Swift, Beautiful Eyes, Fearless, Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, Live in SoHo, Speak Now
Genre: Country Pop, Country Music, Pop Music
Record Label: Big Machines Records, Universal Music Group, Hollywood Records
Active Since: 2006 onwards
Height: 5 feet and 11 inches
Vital Statistics: 32 - 35 - 25
TV Shows: Law and Order, SVU, CSI and Grey's Anatomy
Musical Influences: Her grandmother, who was an opera singer, Garth Brooks, LeAnn Rimes and Tim McGraw

Favorites:

Color: White
Food: Cheesecake
Holiday: Christmas
Hobby: Driving.. FAST.
Season: Summer
Things to do: Writing Songs
Things to write about: Love
Artists: Miranda Lambert and Tim McGraw
Song: "Can't Tell me nothing" by Tim McGraw
Quality in other people: Honesty and Sarcasm
Movie: "Love Actually"
Memory: Living on a Farm

Taylor Songwriting: Taylor is the first female solo country artist who have written or co-written all her songs on her Platinum-selling debut. The album has since sold over 3 million copies.

Biography

At an age when most teenagers are only beginning to find their identity and lay plans for the future, there has never been much doubt in Taylor's mind about her calling. Inspired by her maternal grandmother, a professional opera singer, Taylor took up singing early in life.

Growing up, she developed a love for country music, especially Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton. By the age of 10, she began performing around her hometown, at festivals and fairs and sang at karaoke contests. When she was eleven she sang the national anthem before a Philadelphia 76ers game.

By the time she was 12, she had picked up the guitar and began practicing four hours each day, until her fingers started to bleed. To pursue her career in country music, Swift and her family moved near Nashville, Tennessee when she was 13. A showcase at the Nashville's Bluebird Cafe caught the attention of music-industry veteran Scott Borchetta, who had plans to create a new label and decided Swift was one of the first acts he wanted to sign.

A year later, she gets out of the contract because she doesn't want to sing other writer's songs. Around that time, she becomes the youngest songwriter to sign a publishing deal with Sony – but doesn't want her songs sung by other artists. "She has a real inner vision, a real inner directedness," says Scott Borchetta, who eventually urges Swift to write and sing under a recording contract with his indie label, Big Machine Records

In 2006, she had her first hit at the young age of 16, called "Tim McGraw", about a summer love. Since then, she has risen to fame as a successful teenage star and is also an Internet sensation.

Swift's breakout single, "Tim McGraw," which she began writing in her freshman math class, hits country radio airwaves. The song is about hoping her love thinks of her when he hears Tim McGraw's music. It peaks at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. While performing her hit at the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2007, Swift finally meets McGraw when she walks into the audience to serenade McGraw and his wife, Faith Hill.

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TRIVIA:

The love interest in her song, "Tim McGraw", is named Johnny.
Taught herself to play guitar.
Has a little brother named Austin.
Grew up on a Christmas tree farm and her job was to rake Praying Mantis pods off the trees.
Ex-girlfriend of Joe Jonas [November 2008].
Best friends with Selena Gomez and Emma Stone.
Good friends with Paramore lead singer, Hayley Williams, Kellie Pickler, and Emma Watson.
Taylor spent her entire summers through the age of 14 at the Jersey shore.Her family owned a home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, an upscale South Jersey resort town north of Cape May and south of Atlantic City.
Her best friend Abigail Anderson, who she's known since ninth grade, is mentioned in Taylor's song Fifteen from her Fearless album.
She graduated from high school in July 2008 from the Aaron Academy, a Christian high school in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Ex-girlfriend of Taylor Lautner [January 2010].