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Swift also received a Grammy Award for a 2008 in the category of Best New Artist. The album proved to be less successful in comparison with her debut Taylor Swift and featured both holiday classics such as Last Christmas and original songs by Swift. Swift also recorded a holiday album Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection that was issued in October 16, 2007. In October 2007 Swift received Songwriter/Artist of the Year Award from the Nashville Songwriters Association International and became the youngest artist ever to win the award.

Her self-titled debut was certificated multi-platinum. All four catchy singles from her self-titled album following Tim McGraw: Teardrops on My Guitar, Our Song, Picture to Burn and Should've Said No entered Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Swift wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album Original compositions from her debut set are filled with all the ebullience and drama of adolescent life. It turned out to be a doubtless success and brought her fame. This song was named after Tim McGraw a country superstar and one of Taylor's greatest influences, who was also surprised to find himself the subject of her debut single.This song entered her debut album Taylor Swift, which was released on October 24, 2006. While performing at Nashville’s The Bluebird Café, Swift caught the eye of music industry veteran Scott Borchetta, who signed her to his newly formed independent record label Big Machine Records and released her debut single, Tim McGraw, in August 2006. Ultimately, her family made the decision to move to nearby Nashville suburb. She sang The Star-Spangled Banner before a Philadelphia 76s game at the age of 11and her performance fell into the hearts of the crowd. At the beginning Swift sidestepped the major labels in town trying to take a chance with smaller ones, but faced much rejection. There she began performing casually, meet and write with local songwriters in the area. After recording several demo tapes of her singing along to karaoke songs at a studio, they began taking regular trips to Nashville where they handed them out at every label in order to obtain a record deal.

As Taylor’s family was not strangers to music business, they soon discovered both her talent and dedication. Then Taylor realized how readily she could channel all her impetuous emotions into the music. She picked up a guitar at 12 and started writing her own songs.

At the age of ten, Swift became a local star in her home town Wyomissing, singing at fairs, festivals and karaoke contests. It is considered that she tooк inspiration and encouragement from her opera-singing grandmother, though Taylor was always obsessed with country music. Although Swift is a raw talent for the American public, she had been performing since early childhood. Now she lives in Hendersonville, Tennessee with her parents and her brother, Austin. Taylor Swift was born in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. In 2006 at the age of 16 she released her first album, which made her one of the most popular, sparking and youngest country-pop's vocalists in the United States. Taylor Swift is a writer and performer of country pop songs, who began her career as a teenager.