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Taylor swift was born
Swift was born in the city of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Scott, a stock broker, and Andrea Swift, a stay-at-home mother -
In fourth grade she one a national peotry consest
When she was in fourth grade, Swift won a national poetry contest with a three-page long poem entitled "Monster In My Closet". -
begain writing songs
At the age of ten, Swift began writing songs and singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs around her hometown. During one summer, Swift devoted herself to writing a 350-page (unpublished) novel.[13] She was a member of Kirk Cremer's SNL-inspired kid's sketch comedy group, TheatreKids Live!, where she was a natural comedic talent -
age 11 trys for a contract
At age eleven, Swift made her first trip to Nashville hoping to obtain a record deal by distributing a demo tape of her singing with karaoke songs. She gave a copy to every label on Music Row -
age 12 wrote a song
Swift started writing songs and playing 12-string guitar when she was twelve. Swift began to regularly visit Nashville and wrote songs with local songwriters -
music influence is Shania Twain
Swift's greatest musical influence is Shania Twain -
14 moved to Nashville
By the time she was fourteen, her family decided to move to an outlying Nashville suburb -
age 16 fisrt offical song
get a diffent deal when she was 16 did a song called Tim Mcraw -
writes move songs
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age 14 turns down a record deal
When Swift was fifteen, she rejected a development deal with RCA Records because the company refused to allow her to record her own songs. Swift then performed at Nashville's songwriters' venue, The Bluebird Café, catching the attention of Scott Borchetta who signed her to his newly-formed record label, Big Machine Records. She also became the youngest staff songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Tree publishing hous -
starts acting