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Taylor Swift was born on the 13th of December 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania. She is of Scottish, English, and German descent, with distant Irish and Italian ancestry; her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, was an opera singer. Her father worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch, and her mother was a mutual fund marketing executive.
Swift organized a showcase concert at the Bluebird Cafe on the 3rd of November 2004, which was attended by music executive Scott Borchetta, who was planning to launch an independent label called Big Machine Records. She signed with Big Machine two weeks later, on the condition that her albums would be self-written. The contract was finalized by July 2005.
Swift began re-recording her first six albums in November 2020 after talent manager Scooter Braun purchased Big Machine Records in 2019, acquiring the master recordings of her original albums. She said she was not informed of the sale beforehand, and that re-acquiring her masters would have required recording a new album for each older one under a new contract, which she refused. On the 30th of May 2025, she finalized the purchase of those original masters from Shamrock Holdings.
The Eras Tour, which ran from March 2023 through December 2024, became the first concert tour to gross $1 billion in revenue and finished with $2 billion in total revenue, making it the highest-grossing concert tour in history. Its accompanying 2023 concert film grossed $250 million, the most of any concert film ever made.
Taylor Swift has won 14 Grammy Awards. Her most notable Grammy record is four Album of the Year wins, the most by any artist in history, for Fearless (2010), 1989 (2016), Folklore (2021), and Midnights (2024). She has also received a record eight nominations for Song of the Year.
In October 2023, it was reported that Swift had become a billionaire. Forbes estimated her net worth at $2 billion, recognizing her as the first billionaire primarily based on songs and performances, with the majority of her fortune derived from royalties and touring. The estimate included a $900 million music catalog and a $100 million real estate portfolio.