Who is Taylor Swift?
Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter and one of the best-selling musicians in history. She is the first artist to win the Grammy for Album of the Year four times, and her Eras Tour is the highest-grossing concert tour ever.
Swift was born in 1989 in Pennsylvania and moved to Nashville as a teenager to pursue country music. Her debut album came out in 2006. She moved into pop with albums like 1989 in 2014 and later explored indie folk with Folklore and Evermore in 2020. Her songs, mostly self-written, are known for their storytelling.
She won Album of the Year for Fearless, 1989, Folklore and Midnights. After a dispute over the ownership of her early recordings, she re-recorded several albums as Taylor's Version, and in 2025 she bought back her original masters. Her 2025 album The Life of a Showgirl broke sales records.
The Eras Tour
The Eras Tour, which ran from 2023 to December 2024, played 149 shows across five continents and earned more than 2 billion dollars, the highest-grossing tour of all time. Her fans call themselves Swifties.
Did You Know?
Swift was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 2023, the first person honored mainly for achievements in the arts.