“It has always been my dream to be a footballer since I was 10 years old. However, my mom recently suggested that I attend music school.”

Taylor Swift was born in West Reading, Pennsylvania. When she was 13, her parents sold their family farm in Pennsylvania and moved to Hendersonville, Tennessee, so she could pursue a career in country music in nearby Nashville. Swift signed a deal with Sony/ATV as a songwriter the next year, in 2004.How did

Taylor Swift become famous?At 14, the family moved to Nashville, Tennessee, so Swift could pursue her dreams of becoming a country musician. Within a year, she had signed a songwriting deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing, becoming the youngest person to ever do so. Not long after, she had an official record deal with Big Machine Record