Date of Birth
13 December 1989, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Birth Name
Taylor Alison Swift
Height
Trade Mark
Curly blonde hair
Cowboy boots
Writes most of her
songs about her exes
Glittery guitars
Long gowns/princess
dresses
Trivia
The love interest in
her song, "Tim McGraw", is named Johnny.
Taught herself to
play guitar.
Has a little brother
named Austin.
With her first No. 1
song "Our Song", at age 18 years and 9 days, became the fifth
teen-aged female singer to top the Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs chart.
The others were Jean Shepard (19 years, 9 months in August 1953
with "A Dear John Letter"), Tanya
Tucker (14 years, 7 months in May
1973 with "What's Your Mama's Name"), Marie Osmond (14 years, 1 month in November 1973
with "Paper Roses") and LeAnn
Rimes (14 years, 4 months in
December 1996 with "One Way Ticket (Because I Can)").
Was ranked #57 on
Maxim magazine's Hot 100 of 2008 list.
She grew up on a
Christmas tree farm and her job was to rake Praying Mantis pods off the trees.
Was in a
relationship with Joe Jonas [June 2008 - October 2008].
Best friends with Selena Gomez and Emma
Stone.
She won the award
for Best Female Video at the 2009 Video Music Awards.
Good friends with Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams, Kellie Pickler, and Emma Watson.
On November 11th,
2009, Taylor became the youngest singer to win the CMA Entertainer of the Year
Award.
She spent her
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.
Had a cameo in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009).
She credits LeAnn Rimes as her main influence into a country
music career. Swift stated on "The
Oprah Winfrey Show" (1986)
that she wanted to be a country singer after attending Rimes' concert.
She was a member of
a local SNL-inspired kid's sketch comedy group TheatreKids Live! while growing
up in Pennsylvania.
Her music influences
include Dolly Parton, Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, Patsy Cline, and her grandmother, who
was a professional opera singer.
Taylor's best friend
Abigail Anderson, whom she's known since ninth grade, is mentioned in her song
"Fifteen" from her Fearless album.
She graduated from
high school in July 2008 from Hendersonville High School in Hendersonville,
Tennessee.
Named a spokeswoman
for Cover Girl [May 4, 2010].
Was in a
relationship with Taylor Lautner [July 2009 - December 2009].
When she appeared at
the 44th Annual Academy of
Country Music Awards (2009) (TV),
she assisted magician David
Copperfield with two illusions.
First, he made her appear inside an apparently empty glass elevator, and in the
second he sawed her in half in the same glass-sided boxes he used to saw Claudia Schiffer in half in his 1990s stage shows.
Ranked #31 in Maxim
magazine's "Hot 100" Women of 2010.
Was in a
relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal [October 2010 - December 2010].
Holds the rare
distinction of having all of her released singles (excluding promotional
singles and singles as a featured artist) reach the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot
100 pop chart. Of those twelve singles, five of them have reached the Top 10,
and three of those five singles have reached the Top 5.
Friends with Justin Bieber.
Went to the same
high school in Wyomissing, PA, as Jillian
Murray.
When Beyoncé Knowles won the MTV Music Video award for
Video of the Year, she set aside her acceptance speech in order to allow Taylor
to finish her acceptance speech, for best female video, which had been
interrupted by Kanye West hours earlier.
She won the
'Entertainer of the Year' award at the 46th American Country Music Awards.
Ranked #20 in Maxim
magazine's "Hot 100" Women of 2011.
Her first song was
called "Lucky You".
Her grandmother was
an opera singer.
It took three
attempts to get her driver's permit when she was 15.
Graduated from home
schooling in 2008.
Ranked #61 in the
2011 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
Ranked #53 in the
2011 FHM Australia list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
It took her 3
attempts to get her driver's permit.
Nicknamed her car
"Toyoat" because it is a Toyota.