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Taylor Alison Swift born December 13, 1989 in Pennsylvania, is a singer-songwriter of country and american actress .
Taylor began singing at an early age and made his first public appearance at eight years old
when she played the lead role of Sandy in the production of children's theater Grease.
At the age of ten, she began writing songs and participate in karaoke contests.
In summer, she wrote a novel of 350 pages.
She admits to already be time admiration of Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton.
At age eleven, she made her first trip to Nashville, the symbolic and legendary country music, in the hope of getting a contract.
She knocked on the doors of all the labels and distributes models she recorded karaoke.
The following year, Taylor Swift learned to play the guitar and began to develop his role as a composer.
A year later, she signed a contract with RCA Records, which helps young hopefuls and leads to the encounter with his future principal and co-songwriter Liz Rose.
At age 14, she signed a publishing deal with Sony / ATV and became the youngest songwriter to sign with them.
His first album, Taylor Swift, was released on 24 October 2006.
Taylor Swift wrote or co-wrote with Liz Rose and composed music for all the songs on the album,
which began in 19th place in the ranking of Billboard magazine
The album has sold 39,000 copies in the first week.
Later, he reached the top spot on the Billboard Top Country Albums.
The album remained for eight consecutive weeks at the 1st place in the standings.
In November 2008, Taylor Swift has sold over 3 million albums and 7.5 million singles downloaded.
His first single Tim McGraw, is broadcast radio in mid-2006 and reached sixth place in Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs for the week of January 27, 2007.
The second single from the album Taylor Swift Teardrops on My Guitar,
the song for the first time reached the second spot on the Hot Country Songs.
Taylor Swift also recorded a Christmas album, Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection
The album contains both classics such as Last Christmas, Silent Night and White Christmas and original songs written by herself.
In summer 2008, Taylor Swift released Beautiful Eyes, an EP sold exclusively at Wal-Mart.
During its first week of operation in the United States, the album has sold 45,000 copies
The second studio album, Fearless, was released in the U.S. November 11, 2008.
At the 43rd Country Music Awards, Swift was doubly rewarded Album of the Year for Fearless as an artist and producer.
Several singles from the new album will be like Love Story succees as preamble to the album.
White Horse is the second official single from her album Fearless, co-written with Liz Rose.
This song will be certified three times platinum, and finally she released the third single from her second single album, You Belong with Me
Since the release of her second album, Fearless, she has released a new song for the soundtrack Crazier the feature film Hannah Montana: The Movie.
The song has a relaxed ballad with country pop overtones and lyrics describe a love story.
Taylor Swift performs the song itself during a brief appearance in the film.
Crazier has been hailed by critics and some called it "the best song of the soundtrack for Taylor."
Digital downloads began immediately after the release of the soundtrack March 23, 2009,
and led to commercial success in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Speak Now is the third album ranked 45th among the 50 greatest albums of all time, category Women Who Rock "by Rolling Stone.
She then released another song Today Was a Fairytale for the soundtrack of the film Valentine's Day in which she played with Taylor Lautner.
In December 2011, Taylor Swift has also composed and performed Safe & Sound, soundtrack Hunger Games movie
accompanied by the band The Civil Wars (en) and T Bone Burnett.
She also performs a duet with BoB song Both of Us, on the album of the latter, released on 1 May 2012.
Red is the fourth studio album by American country artist Taylor Swift.
It was released October 22, 2012 by Big Machine Records.
Upon its release, Red has been mostly acclaimed by music critics, who praised its versatility
as a musician and enjoyed his experiments with new genres.
The album debuted as number one on the Billboard 200, selling approximately 1,208,000 units in its first week,
the second best start music for a female artist, a record since 1991.
She became the first female artist and the fourth artist in the history of all music has to make more than a million sales in the first week for two albums.
The other album Taylor Swift have managed this feat is Speak Now.
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