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Autopsychobiography
Taylor Alison Swift: The Storyteller
Are you familiar with the pretty girl who has a curly blonde hair that is fond of long gowns, princess dresses, cowboy boots and brings glittery guitars during concerts? Do you know this girl who writes most of her songs about her ex-boyfriends and usually tell a story? Do you know this person? Well, she is none other than the famous Taylor Swift.
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Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA to Scott Swift and Andrea Swift. Her mother named her after the singer James Taylor because of a belief that a gender-neutral name would help her become successful in business. She has a younger brother named Austin Swift, a photographer.
At the age of nine, Taylor joined musical theaters and performed well-known musicals like Grease, The Sound of Music, Annie, and Bye Bye Birdie. When she was fourteen years old, her family moved to Nashville, Tennessee where she started her career as a country singer. She acquired her love for music especially country music with the influence of her grandmother who was a professional opera singer. Taylor would religiously practice her guitar skills for four hours a day until her fingers bled literally. From there, she started composing songs with the stories usually about girls who have been dumped or bullied finding a way to recover themselves. She writes personal songs that people could easily relate. Aside from her talent in music, she graduated high school in 2008 holding the reputation as a straight-A student.
This American singer-songwriter and occasional actor went through many relationships, which became an inspiration in writing her songs. She dated Joe Jonas, a singer, and Taylor Lautner, an actor. She also had a romantic relationship with John Meyer and Jake Gyllenhaal. At present, she is dating Conor Kennedy, the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. She writes songs for people she develops a relationship. According to her, “Everyone I know has



References: Taylor Swift. (n.d.) Retrieved August 5, 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift Retrieved from

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