Taylor Swift Success Story

Childhood

Taylor ‘Alison’ Swift was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on 13th December 1989. She was educated at the West Reading Elementary Center after which she went to the Wyomissing Area Senior High School. As a child her favorite hobby was to ride the horses and was encouraged to participate in many horse shows. But at the age of nine, she got a new interest which would make her one of the recognizable people of her generation. 

Early life

She showed interest in musical theatre for which she went to the Broadway for vocal and acting lessons. She took special interest to country music which she started performing at fairs, local music festivals, sporting events and coffeehouses.By the age of 11, Swift was sure that she had her future in music and in search of a break she was taken by her mother to Nashville, Tennessee. At Nashville, she contacted many record labels for joining as a solo singer but got rejected by all of them. She had to become the best at what she was doing in order to be selected at such a young age. 

Begining

At the age of 12, she was taught 3 chords by a computer repairman on a guitar. With these 3 simple chords she wrote her first song, ‘Lucky You’. She joined the Henderson High School in Tennessee at the age of to 14 where she would study only for 2 years.She now got a contract deal with RCA records where she would collaborate with other experienced songwriters. By the age of 15, she was not only good at singing and the guitar but had become a great songwriter. She was now hired as the youngest songwriter at 15 by Sony/ATV Tree publishing house to write songs for other singers. But in 2005, she joined Big Machine Records in order to create her own album. Within one year she was ready with her first album at the age of 16 in which she wrote 3 songs on her own and co-wrote the 8 remaining songs.