Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift
Swift at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards
Born	Taylor Alison Swift (1989-12-13) December 13, 1989 (age 34) West Reading, Pennsylvania, US
Occupations	Singer-songwriter producer director actress
Years active	2003–present
Organization	Taylor Swift Productions
Works	Albums singles songs videos performances
Relatives	Austin Swift (brother) Marjorie Finlay (grandmother)
Awards	Full list
Musical career
Origin	Nashville, Tennessee, US
Genres	Pop country folk rock alternative
Instruments	Vocals guitar piano banjo ukulele
Labels	Republic Big Machine
Musical artist
Website	taylorswift.com
Signature

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her autobiographical songwriting and artistic reinventions, Swift is an influential figure in popular culture and the subject of widespread public interest.

Swift signed with Big Machine Records in 2005, starting as a country pop singer with her first two albums Taylor Swift (2006) and Fearless (2008). Their singles "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Love Story", and "You Belong with Me" were crossover successes on country and pop radio formats. She experimented with rock on Speak Now (2010) and electronic styles on Red (2012), the latter of which featured her first U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together". Swift shifted to pop with 1989 (2014), a synth-pop album containing the U.S. chart-topping songs "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood". Media scrutiny inspired her sixth album Reputation (2017) and its U.S. number-one single "Look What You Made Me Do".

Shifting to Republic Records in 2018, Swift released the pop album Lover (2019) and the autobiographical documentary Miss Americana (2020). She explored indie folk styles on the 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore and subdued pop genres on Midnights (2022) and The Tortured Poets Department (2024). She successfully re-recorded four of her albums subtitled (Taylor's Version)^[a] after a dispute with Big Machine, and garnered the U.S. number-one songs "Cruel Summer", "Cardigan", "Willow", "Anti-Hero", "Fortnight", "All Too Well", and "Is It Over Now?" in the 2020s. Her sixth concert tour, the Eras Tour (2023–present), and its accompanying concert film are respectively the highest-grossing tour and concert film of all time; Swift became the first billionaire with music as the main source of income, and the highest-grossing female touring act.

Swift is one of the world's best-selling music artists with estimated global sales of 200 million records. Seven of her albums have opened with over one million pure sales in a week. She was named the 2023 Time Person of the Year, and has appeared on lists such as Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time", Billboard's "Greatest of All Time Artists", and Forbes' "World's 100 Most Powerful Women". Her accolades include 14 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, 40 American Music Awards, 39 Billboard Music Awards, and 23 MTV Video Music Awards; she has won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year, and the IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year a record four times each.
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