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Birth name: Taylor Alison Swift. Born: December 13, 1989 Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 28, 2008: "Country Star Taylor Swift Gets Her High School Diploma" If country music sensation Taylor Swift would have attended high school this year, she probably would have been voted Most Likely to Succeed. Instead, Swift has home schooled the past two years and is currently on tour with Rascal Flatts. She has just received her high school diploma, however, and has taken to her blog to talk about the joys of being a high school graduate. "Another thing I'm excited about is that I've officially graduated from high school!! CLASS OF 2008. YESSSSSSS. Even if I've been home schooled for the past 2 years, it still means a lot to me that I have my diploma." Swift attended public school before her singing career took off, then made the transition to Aaron Academy, a private Christian school that offers home schooling. According to E! Online, last week Swift became the first artist since LeAnn Rimes in 1997 to hold the two top positions on the Top Country Albums chart, with her new Wal-Mart-exclusive EP release, Beautiful Eyes, at No. 1 and her triple-platinum, self-titled debut album at No. 2. "I'm having the most amazing week! Thanks to you guys, I've got the 1 AND 2 country album this week," she writes. "Thank you to everybody who went out to Wal-Mart this week and bought Beautiful Eyes. I'm so thankful for you. Wow. It's pretty unbelievable." *** April 20, 2008: "Taylor Swift Wins Female Video of the Year Award" Looking her lovely self on the red carpet at the 2008 CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee, it ended up being a big night on Monday for rising country star Taylor Swift. Getting a big congratulations from the show’s host and her good pal, Miley Cyrus, Swift won female video of the year for her hit tune “Our Song”. “Are you serious? I can’t even believe this,” said Swift, 18, who beat out a field that included Martina McBride, Carrie Underwood, LeAnn Rimes and Miranda Lambert. This is the second year in a row that Taylor has won herself a buckle by the fan’s vote at the annual awards show. *** *** Taylor Swift In Concert At The Rialto Square Theatre, Rialto Square Theatre February 1,2008 *** Taylor Swift In Concert At Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center January 26,2008 Taylor Swift biography (bio): Taylor Alison Swift is an American country music singer-songwriter. Signed to the independent Big Machine Records label in 2006, Taylor made her debut on the country charts at age sixteen with the release of her debut single "Tim McGraw". Her self-titled debut album was released in late 2006, and has since been certified platinum by the RIAA for selling more than one million copies in the United States; to date, the album has produced three Top Ten singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, all three of which have also reached Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2007, she also won the Country Music Association's Horizon Award. Taylor Swift was born in Reading, Pennsylvania and lives with her parents in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Swift's influences include her grandmother, who was a singer, and LeAnn Rimes. At the age of ten, Swift began to perform around her hometown, Wyomissing, singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs. Her first exposure to the music business consisted of recording demo tapes at a studio. At age 11, Taylor made her first trip to Nashville in hopes of attaining a record deal by handing out a demo tape she had made of her singing along to karaoke songs. She handed this tape to receptionists at every label on Music Row. Taylor returned to Pennsylvania; her break came at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, when her rendition of the national anthem moved the crowd. In Nashville she wrote songs with local songwriters. The family decided to move to Hendersonville, Tennessee, an outlying Nashville suburb. When she performed at Nashville's premier songwriters' cafe, The Bluebird Café, she caught the attention of Scott Borchetta. Scott signed her to his newly-formed record label, Big Machine Records. Swift's first single, "Tim McGraw", was released to radio in Summer of 2006. On October 24, 2006, her self-titled CD was released. The album, on which Swift wrote or co-wrote all of the songs, peaked at #19 on the Billboard 200 and sold more than 61,000 during its first week. In 2007, it peaked at #1 at Billboard Top Country Albums and #8 at Billboard 200. It also spent eight consecutive weeks at the top of Top Country Albums. "Tim McGraw" peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts for the week of January 27, 2007. The song's music video set a record by appearing for 30 consecutive weeks on GAC's fan-voted weekly Top 20 music countdown show, and reached #1 on CMT's video charts; the video also won Taylor a "Breakthrough Video of the Year" at the 2007 CMT Music Awards with "Tim McGraw". Her pursuit of country music stardom was the subject of "GAC Short Cuts", a part-documentary, part-music video series airing since the summer of 2006 on the country music channel Great American Country. On May 15, 2007, Swift performed "Tim McGraw" at the Academy of Country Music Awards. She sang the song to Tim McGraw in the audience, and introduced herself for the first time to him. Taylor has been an opening act for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill on their Soul2Soul 2007 tour. She is currently touring with Brad Paisley and has opened in the past for George Strait and Rascal Flatts as well. More recently, she was named a presenter and performer at the prestigious American Women in Radio and Television event in New York in June 2007. Her second album is about to be recorded and planned for a 2008 release, the same year she is scheduled to graduate high school through her home-school program. On November 7, 2007, Swift won the 2007 CMA Horizon Award and also performed "Our Song" and danced with Kellie Pickler while Brad Paisley sang "Online," just as she did in the music video for the song. |