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Time Person of the year change every year. This year. he magazine chose the pop star over finalists that included the Hollywood strikers, Barbie and King Charles III. me magazine on Wednesday named Taylor Swift
as its person of the year. “Picking one person who represents the eight
billion people on the planet is no easy task. We picked a choice that
represents joy.
Born : December 13, 1989 · Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Taylor Alison Swift
5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
About Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift is a multi-Grammy award-winning American singer/songwriter
who, in 2010 at the age of 20, became the youngest artist in
history to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In 2011 Swift
was named Billboard's Woman of the Year. She also has been
named the American Music Awards Artist of the Year, as well as the
Entertainer of the Year for both the Country Music Association and the
Academy of Country Music, among many other accolades. As of this
writing, she is also the top-selling digital artist in music history.
Taylor
Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania,
to Andrea (Finlay), a one-time marketing executive, and
Scott Kingsley Swift, a financial adviser. Her ancestry includes German
and English, as well as some Scottish, Irish, Welsh and 1/16th Italian.
She was named after
James Taylor, and her mother
believed that if she had a gender neutral name it would help her forge a
business career. Taylor spent most of her childhood on an 11-acre
Christmas tree farm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. When she was
nine years old the family moved to Wyomissing, PA, where she
attended West Reading Elementary Center and Wyomissing Area
Junior/Senior High School. Taylor spent her summers at her parents'
vacation home at the Jersey shore. Her first hobby was English
horse riding. Her mother put her in a saddle when she was nine months
old and Swift later competed in horse shows. At the age of nine she
turned her attention to musical theatre and performed in Berks Youth
Theatre Academy productions of "Grease", "Annie", "Bye Bye Birdie" and "The
Sound of Music". She traveled regularly to New York City for vocal
and acting lessons. However, after a few years of auditioning in New
York and not getting anything, she became interested in country music.
At age 11, after many attempts, Taylor won a local talent
competition by singing a rendition of LeAnn Rimes' "Big Deal", and was
given the opportunity to appear as the opening act for Charlie Daniels
at a Strausstown amphitheater. This interest in country music isolated
Swift from her middle school peers.
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At age 12 she was shown by a computer repairman how to
play three chords on a guitar, inspiring her to write her first song,
"Lucky You". She had previously won a national poetry contest with a
poem entitled "Monster in My Closet", but now began to focus on
songwriting. She moved to Nashville at age 14, having
secured an artist development deal with RCA Records. She left RCA
Records when she was 15--the label wanted her to record the work
of other songwriters and wait until she was 18 to release an
album, but she felt ready to launch her career with her own material.
At an industry showcase at Nashville's The Bluebird Café in 2005, Swift
caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a Dreamworks Records executive
who was preparing to form his own independent record label, Big Machine
Records. Taylor was one of the new label's first signings.
Taylor
released her debut album, "Taylor Swift", in October of 2006 and
received generally positive reviews from music critics. The New York
Times described it as "a small masterpiece of pop-minded country, both
wide-eyed and cynical, held together by Ms. Swift's firm, pleading
voice". Her single "Our Song" made her the youngest solo writer and
singer of a #1 country song. The album sold 39,000 copies
during its first week. In 2008 she released her second studio album,
"Fearless". The lead single from the album, "Love Story", was released
in September 2008 and became the second best-selling country single of
all time, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Four
more singles were released throughout 2008 and 2009: "White Horse",
"You Belong with Me", "Fifteen" and "Fearless". "You Belong with Me"
was the album's highest-charting single, peaking at #2 on the
Billboard Hot 100. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200
Album Chart. It was the top-selling album of 2009 and brought Swift
much crossover success.
In September 2009 she became the first country music artist to win
an MTV Video Music Award when "You Belong with Me" was named Best
Female Video. Her acceptance speech was interrupted by rapper Ye, who had been involved in a number of other award show incidents.
West declared Beyoncé's video for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)",
nominated in the same category, to be "one of the best videos of all
time". When Beyoncé later won the award for Video of the Year, she
invited Taylor onstage to finish her speech. In November 2009 Taylor Swift
became the youngest ever artist, and one of only six women, to be named
Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association.
She
released her third studio album in October 2010, "Speak Now", and wrote
all the songs herself. She originally intended to call the album
"Enchanted" but Scott Borchetta, her record label's CEO, felt the title
did not reflect the album's more adult themes. Swift toured throughout
2011 and early 2012 in support of "Speak Now". As part of the
13-month, 111-date world tour, Swift played seven shows in Asia,
12 in Europe, 80 in North America and 12 in
Australasia (three dates on the US tour were rescheduled after she
fell ill with bronchitis). The stage show was inspired by Broadway
musical theatre, with choreographed routines, elaborate set-pieces,
pyrotechnics and numerous costume changes. Swift invited many musicians
to join her for one-off duets during the North American tour.
Appearances were made by James Taylor, Jason Mraz, Shawn Colvin, Johnny Rzeznik, Andy Grammer, Tal Bachman, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Nicki Minaj, Nelly, B.o.B., Usher, Flo Rida, Tip 'T.I.' Harris, Jon Foreman, Jim Adkins,
Hayley Williams, Hot Chelle Rae, Ronnie Dunn, Darius Rucker, Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney. In May 2012 Taylor featured in B.o.B's song "Both of
Us".
Click here Swift's fourth studio album, "Red", was released on October 22, 2012. She
wrote nine of the album's 16 songs alone; the remaining seven were
co-written with Max Martin, Liz Rose, Dan Wilson, Ed Sheeran and Gary Lightbody. Nathan Chapman served as the album's lead producer but Jeff Bhasker, Butch Walker, Jacknife Lee, Dann Huff and Shellback (aka Shellback) also
produced individual tracks. Chapman has said he encouraged Swift "to
branch out and to test herself in other situations". She has described
the collaborative process as "an apprenticeship" that taught her to
"paint with different colors". "Red" examines Swift's attraction to
drama-filled relationships; she believes that, since writing the
record, such relationships no longer appeal to her. Musically, while
there is some experimentation with "slick, electronic beats", the pop
sheen is limited to a handful of tracks sprinkled among more
recognizably Swiftian fare. "Rolling Stone" enjoyed "watching Swift find
her pony-footing on Great Songwriter Mountain. She often succeeds in
joining the Joni/Carole King tradition of stark-relief emotional
mapping . . . Her self-discovery project is one of the best stories in
pop." The Guardian described Swift as a "Brünnhilde of a rock star" and
characterized "Red" as "another chapter in one of the finest fantasies
pop music has ever constructed". "USA Today" felt that the "engaging"
record saw Swift "write ever-more convincingly--and wittily and
painfully--about the messy emotions of a young twenty something
nearing the end of her transition from girl to woman". The "Los Angeles
Times" noted the exploration of "more nuanced relationship issues" on
"an unapologetically big pop record that opens new sonic vistas for
her".
As part of the "Red" promotional campaign, representatives from 72
worldwide radio stations were flown to Nashville during release week
for individual interviews with Swift. She made television appearances
on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003), Good Morning America (1975), The View (1997), Late Show with David Letterman (1993), ABC News Nightline (1980) and All Access Nashville with Katie Couric (2012). She performed at Los Angeles' MTV VMAs and London's
Teen Awards, and will also perform at Nashville's CMA Awards,
Frankfurt's MTV Europe Music Awards, Los Angeles' AMA Awards and
Sydney's ARIA Music Awards. Swift offered exclusive album promotions
through Target, Papa John's and Walgreens. She became a spokesmodel for
Keds sneakers, released her sophomore Elizabeth Arden fragrance and
continued her partnerships with Cover Girl, Sony Electronics and
American Greetings, as well as her unofficial brand tie-ins with Ralph
Lauren and Shellys. The album's lead single, "We Are Never Ever Getting
Back Together", was released in August 2012. The song became Swift's
first #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, recording the
highest ever one-week sales figures for a female artist. Two further
singles have since been released: "Begin Again" (country radio) and "I
Knew You Were Trouble" (pop and international radio).In her career, as
of May 2012, Swift has sold over 23 million albums and 54.5 million
digital tracks worldwide.
Taylor Swift is only beginning to emerge as an acting talent, having voiced
the role of Audrey in the animated feature
The Lorax (2012). She also made
appearances in the theatrical release
Valentine's Day (2010) and in
an episode of
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000). She contributed two original songs to
The Hunger Games (2012)
soundtrack: "Safe & Sound featuring The Civil Wars" and "Eyes Open".
Taylor released her fifth album, titled "1989", on October 27, 2014.
This album is when she finally made the complete transition from country
to pop. She says that she will not be going to any Country Music Award
shows. The album is named after the year she was born, and is a sort of
'80s-sounding album, in the sense that it's more electronic.
In
March 2015 she began dating Scottish Disc Jockey Calvin Harris after
having met at the Brit Awards in February. They were together for
thirteen months.
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