Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Taylor Swift’s childhood home put up for sale at $1.1million
nme.comTaylor Swift‘s childhood homes was recently put up for sale once again, with the property reportedly already having found a new buyer.After spending her early years growing up on a Christmas tree farm, Swift’s family began renting the three-storey, five-bedroom home in Reading, Pennsylvania during the singer’s childhood.The home, built in 1929, spans 3,500 square feet and is located on a three-quarter acre lot.
The family lived there for three years until moving to Nashville in 2004 to pursue the singer’s then-burgeoning music career.The New York Post reports that the property was put up for sale in February for $1.1million, and that it went under contract last Friday (April 8) after a $100,000 reduction in price.In 2020, a former owner of the house went viral on TikTok for sharing a video in which she explained her connection to Swift.
Speaking to interior decorating magazine House Beautiful, the woman, Sydney Redner, revealed that in the cement outside the house, there’s an imprint that says TAS – Taylor Alison Swift’s initials.“We get a lot of fans taking pictures outside the house,” Redner told the magazine. “I feel like there tends to be more around the holidays, when people are traveling from other states and want to see it“If Taylor Swift has a concert in Philadelphia or somewhere close, there are more fans around that time.
Our family is fine with fans taking pictures, as long as they are quick and respectful.” In other Swift news, the singer recently praised Phoebe Bridgers‘ songwriting in a profile of Bridgers by the Los Angeles Times.
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