taylor swift

Taylor Alison Swift ( born December 13 , 1989 ) is an American singer-songwriter ^[4] . She has won 11 Grammy Awards (41 nominations ) ^[5] .

He used the pseudonym Nils Sjöberg when he co-wrote the Rihanna song "This Is What You Came For" with Calvin Harris .

Fans are collectively called Swifties ( English : Swifties).

Born December 13, 1989 in West Reading, Pennsylvania . ^[6] His father is a financial advisor to a bank ^[7] [8] . His father was raised in Pennsylvania, and his ancestors were three generations of bank presidents . ^[9] [10] His mother was a mutual fund marketing manager, but became a stay-at-home mom after her retirement . ^[11] Her mother is American, but she lived in Singapore until the age of ¹⁰ with her father (Taylor's grandfather), who worked as an engineer mainly in Southeast Asia . 

Taylor spent his childhood on an 11-acre Christmas tree farm in Kamul Township , Pennsylvania . He moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of three. Her Swift family owned several quarter horses , Shetland ponies , and her first hobby was English horseback riding ^. She was first put in the saddle by her mother when she was only nine months old, and she later went on to compete in her competitions.[ 15 ^] She attended preschool and kindergarten with Franciscan nuns , ^[16] after which she attended a coeducational private school . ^[17] Taylor and her brother were Presbyterian and attended Bible School during the summer .

At the age of 9, the family rented a house outside Wyomissing, Pennsylvania , ^[20] where he attended elementary, middle, and high school . ^[21] She spent her summers at her parents' vacation home on the shores of Stone Harbor, New Jersey , and later said that "her childhood memories were largely made here .

Released on October 25, 2010, Speak Now was a success, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 and becoming the band's sixteenth album to sell one million copies ^{. 79]} . It became the best-selling digital album by a female artist, with 278,000 downloads in a single week, a Guinness World Record. She also became the first woman to have 10 debut songs on the Billboard Hot 100. [ ^80] Among the album's singles, "Mine", "Back to December", and "Mean" reached the top ten in Canada .

On April 25, 2019, he released "ME!" featuring Panic! at the Disco 's Brendon Urie . The song, which marked the superstar's return to mainstream pop, made headlines. The music video recorded 65.2 million views on YouTube within 24 hours of its release, setting a new all-time record for a solo artist and a female artist. [ ^127] The song debuted at No. 100 on the Billboard Hot 100, but in its second week, it reached No. 2, the biggest climb ever. The album's second single, "You Need to Calm Down," will be released on June 14, and the seventh studio album, "Lover," will be released on August 23. ^[128] . In addition, the same song recorded the second place in the United States like "ME!" ^[129] . On July 23rd, she released her third single, "The Archer" . ^[130] [131] On August 16, the title track "Lover" was released . She released her seventh album, Lover , on August 23rd. All 18 songs recorded in the album charted in the US singles chart at the same time as its release, and the album recorded sales of 3 million copies worldwide in one week 

• During the 2008 presidential election , she participated in "Every Woman Counts" to support women's political advancement and "Vote (For Your) Country" to encourage voting. [ ^159] "I don't see it as my job to influence how you vote," he said,[10] while after Barack Obama's inauguration, he said, "This country is ^so political . I've never seen anyone happy with a decision.I'm honored that this was my first election," he told American magazine Rolling Stone in support of Obama. [ 160 ^] .
• In an interview in 2012, he said, "I try to study as much as possible and send messages based on reliable information." ^[161] [ ¹⁶² ] The media criticized this stance, with the American news outlet Politico calling it "absurdly apolitical." [ ^163] In addition, rumors spread among Trump-supporting alt-rights that she was actually a “ hidden Trump ” escalated to “actually a white supremacist ,” resulting in an internet meme linking her to the Nazis . Some even called her a goddess ^[164] [165] .
• On October 7, 2018, he announced on Instagram that he would endorse Democrats in the November midterm elections, saying he would vote for Phil Bredesen for Senate and Jim Cooper for House of Representatives . ^{[166] [167] [168] [162]} . He said he would vote for female candidates whenever possible, but said he could not support Republican Marsha Blackburn, citing sexual minority rights, gender and racial equality, and institutional race . ^[169] [170] He said he wanted to fight for the elimination of discrimination . She also made a similar statement at the 2018 American Music Awards 2018 Artist of the Year ceremony . ^[171] In response to this remark, US President Donald Trump said that Swift may not know Blackburn very well, and that her music has disliked her by 25%.[ 168 ^] An Instagram post calling for voters to register and vote garnered more than one million likes in a matter of hours[170], ^{[172] [ 173] [174] and} 250,000 online voter registrations.. The nonprofit Vote.org revealed that more than 60% of her registrations since Oct. 7 were between the ages of 18 and 29, and while it's unclear how much of an impact her appeal has had, her fan base is still growing. ^[172] points out an overlap with strata .
• He also had connections with the Kennedy family , ^[175] and admired Ethel Skakel Kennedy, the wife of Robert Kennedy . ^[176]
• She is a feminist and criticizes sexism and discrimination against LGBT people . ^[177] In 2008, during the California homosexual murders in which a gay boy was murdered, she participated in the taping of GLSEN's public service announcements against hate crimes . ^[178] A year after her murder, she told American magazine Seventeen that her own parents taught her not to "judge others by the things they love, the color of their skin, their religion, etc." [ ¹⁷⁹ ] [180] [181] Her opposition to bullying, the music video for "Mean", which also explored homophobia in high school, was nominated for Social Activism at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards . ^[180] [181] Elsewhere, "You Need To Calm Down," from her seventh album, Lover, is about LGBT discrimination, and "The Man," about sexism. The New York Times said, "She is one of a new generation of young and straight women singing to her gay fans about embracing her identity even during her hard times."