With Taylor's increasing talent, she and her family moved to Hendersonville, Tennessee, located near the country music capital, Nashville. After a memorable performance at The Bluebird Café in Nashville, Taylor signed her first recording deal with Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Records. In 2006, she released her first single, "Tim McGraw," which became a Top 10 hit on the country charts. The debut of her self-titled album followed in October, selling more than 2.5 million copies and adding more top hits, including the No. 1 country hit "Our Song." Her debut was both a critical and commercial success, earning her the Horizon Award from the Country Music Association (CMA) and the Academy of Country Music Award for Top New Female Vocalist in 2007. In 2008, Taylor won the Academy of Country Music's "Female Vocalist of the Year" Award, the American Music Awards "Favorite Female Country Artist" award, and nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best New Artist category. She soon released her second album, Fearless (2008), which remained at the top of both the country and pop charts for 11 weeks. After hitting the scene two years prior, Taylor had become the highest-selling country artist of 2008.
Her effort on Fearless continued to be recognized in 2009, reaping in more awards, including "Video of the Year" and "Female Video of the Year" for "Love Story" at the CMT Music Awards. In September of the same year, Taylor won her first moon-man for "Best Female Video" at the MTV Video Music Award, declaring her the first country music star to win a VMA. The win was quickly overshadowed when rapper Kanye West jumped on stage, took the microphone from Taylor's hand as she was about to give her acceptance speech, and attested that R&B singer Beyoncé deserved the award over Taylor. She was unable to give an acceptance speech but when Beyoncé later accepted her award for "Best Video of the Year," she invited Taylor on stage to finish her acceptance speech.
Although embarrassing, the incident turned Taylor into an even bigger hit and success, with her tickets selling out within minutes. She's currently ranked as the 69th most powerful celebrity by Forbes magazine, making over $18 million in one year. Her popularity landed her a guest appearance on the comedy skit show Saturday Night Live, as a host and musical guest. She closed out 2011 with CMA nominations for "Female Vocalist," "Music Video of the Year," "Best Album" and "Entertainer of the Year," along with six American Music Award nominations.
Taylor Swift Boyfriend & Dating History
2007 - 2008Taylor and Joe Jonas never spilled the beans on their relationship but they couldn't keep a lid on it when their break-up hit the news. Taylor went on to write the song "Always and Forever," which was about their relationship and made it perfectly clear that Joe had broken up with her over the phone... Classy move.
October 2009 - December 2009
Taylor and teen heartthrob Taylor Lautner were spotted on dates together on numerous occasions. Lautner even performed a sketch about her on SNL but the two called it off towards the end of the year. Sources say that Swift was less interested in repairing the relationship than Lautner.
2010
Taylor and Toby Hemingway did a music video together for song "Rose of the Fallen." The video featured the two making out which ultimately started the dating rumors. It's worth mentioning the fact that the two were seen hand in hand on numerous occasions.
May 2010
Glee star Cory Monteith and Taylor reportedly went bowling and occasionally hung out, which means they're married in Hollywood. The rumors and public's interest soon died down.
November 2010 - January 2011
In November 2010, Taylor and Jake Gyllenhaal were spotted together and reportedly spent Thanksgiving holiday as one. When January rolled around, they're relationship was fizzling down. It's said that Jake broke up with her over the phone after getting advice from Jonas.
February 2011
Taylor was seen sitting next to 'Glee' star Chord Overstreet at an LA Kings game in February 2011, which immediately ignited rumors of a romance.
July 2012 - Present
Rumors have been confirmed that Taylor is dating late Robert F. Kennedy's eldest grandson Connor Kennedy, a high school student at the $45,000 a year New England prep school. Confirmation of the relationship would have made news earlier but she wanted to wait until he was legal.
Taylor Swift Trivia
Birthday:
December 13, 1989
Age:
24
Sign:
Sagittarius
Birthplace:
Wyomissing, Pennsylvania
Height:
5' 11"
Miscellaneous Trivia:
Made a $250,000 donation to schools around the country that she's either attended or worked with on her 20th birthday, which was used to pay teachers' salaries, buy books and fund various educational programs.Made a cameo in Brad Paisley's video for 'Online' with Kellie Pickler.
Toy company Jakks Pacific created physical fashion dolls of her that will feature her best known fashions and appropriate accessories, including a crystal guitar (March 2008).
Donated her long cream and gold prom dress designed by Jessica McClintock to DonateMyDress.org (April 2009).
Featured in a "Got Milk?" ad campaign (October 2008).
Made a $100,000 donation to the Cedar Rapids, Iowa branch of the Red Cross for flood relief in August 2008.
Her struggle to stardom was documented in 'GAC Short Cuts', a show broadcast on Great American Country channel in 2006.
Met Tim McGraw for the first time at 2007 Academy of Country Music Awards when she sang 'Tim McGraw' on-stage.
Doesn't wear high heels for fear of "falling in front of large groups of people".
Was home-schooled after starting her career in music.
Her favorite TV shows are 'CSI' and 'Law and Order: SVU'.
Taylor grew up on a Christmas tree farm and was given the job of raking the Praying Mantis pods off the trees.
In 2009, Taylor hit the big screen with a fun cameo in the Miley Cyrus film Hannah Montana: The Movie where she played herself.
She graduated from high school in July 2008 from the Aaron Academy, a Christian high school in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Taylor found inspiration from music legends such as Dolly Parton, Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, and Patsy Cline.
Taylor's poetic song Back to December is rumored to be about her ex Taylor Lautner. She sings about regret and wanting to go back and make amends with someone.
She was ranked #57 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list. In 2010, she ranked #31 on the very same annual list.
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