Taylor Swift

Taylor Allison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music. She signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house.

Swift spent the early years of her life on an 11-acre Christmas-tree farm in Cumru Township, Pennsylvania. Swift's family owned several Quarter horses and a Shetland pony, and her first hobby was English horse riding. Her mother first put her in a saddle when she was nine months old and she later competed in horse shows.

Childhood
Swift attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by Franciscan nuns, before moving to the Wyndcroft School, a co-ed private school. Swift and her brother were raised in accordance with the Presbyterian faith and attended Vacation Bible School. When Swift was nine years old, the family moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended West Reading Elementary Center and Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.