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Houston Rodeo: Taylor Swift Tickets

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Signed to the independent Big Machine Records label in 2006, Taylor made her debut on the U.S. Billboard country charts with the release of her debut single “Tim McGraw”.

Her self-titled debut album was released in late 2006, and has since been certified double platinum by the RIAA for selling more than two million copies in the United States. To date, it has produced three Top Ten singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs, including the Number One single “Our Song”; all three of her singles have also reached Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was re-issued in late 2007 with a set of bonus tracks. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best New Artist.

In 2007, Swift won the Country Music Association’s Horizon Award, which is awarded to up-and-coming country music acts. She has been nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best New Artist.

Taylor Swift was born in Reading, Pennsylvania and lives with her parents in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Swift’s influences include her grandmother, who was an opera singer and LeAnn Rimes. Although her grandmother was a professional opera singer, Taylor’s tastes always ran more toward country and she developed a love for Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton at an early age. At the age of ten, Swift began singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs, she also started writing her songs at age 10. Her first exposure to the music business consisted of recording demo tapes at a studio. At age 11, Taylor made her first trip to Nashville in hopes of obtaining a record deal by handing out a demo tape she had made of her singing along to karaoke songs. She handed this tape to receptionists at every label on Music Row. When she performed at Nashville’s premier songwriters’ cafe, The Bluebird Café’, she caught the attention of Scott Borchetta. Scott signed her to his newly-formed record label, Big Machine Records.

Taylor Swift’s first single, “Tim McGraw”, was released to radio in Summer of 2006. On October 24, 2006, her self-titled CD was released. The album, on which Swift wrote or co-wrote all of the songs, debuted at No. 19 on the Billboard 200 and sold more than 61,000 during its first week. It later peaked at No. 1 at Billboard Top Country Albums and No. 5 at Billboard 200. It also spent eight consecutive weeks at the top of Top Country Albums. Swift has surpassed the 20 million mark for music streams on MySpace, she was able to rise to the top where she is currently ranked at #15 for the most MySpace visits for all genres of music.

Swift’s debut single, “Tim McGraw”, was released in Summer 2006. “I wrote the song in my freshman year of high school,” she says. “I was dating a guy named Brandon Borello, and i was about to move. I knew we were going to break up so I started thinking of all the things that I knew would remind him of me. Surprisingly, the first thing that came to mind was that my favorite country artist is Tim McGraw.” The song’s music video set a record by appearing for 30 consecutive weeks on GAC’s fan-voted weekly Top 20 music countdown show, and reached #1 on CMT’s video charts; the video also won Swift a “Breakthrough Video of the Year” at the 2007 CMT Music Awards. Her pursuit of country music stardom was the subject of “GAC Short Cuts”, a part-documentary, part-music video series airing since the summer of 2006 on the country music channel.

On May 15, 2007, Swift performed “Tim McGraw” at the Academy of Country Music Awards. She sang the song to Tim McGraw in the audience, and introduced herself for the first time to him. Swift has been an opening act for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill on their Soul2Soul 2007 tour. She has opened in the past for George Strait, Brad Paisley and Rascal Flatts as well. On August 21, 2007, Taylor Swift performed live on the season finale of America’s Got Talent.

Taylor Swift prides herself on writing or co writing each song on her album. She has written “over 200 songs” and has been writing since age 12. In October 2007 Swift’s songwriting peers at the Nashville Songwriters Association International honored her with their Songwriter / Artist of the Year Award, making her the youngest artist ever to win the award.

On November 7, 2007, Swift won the 2007 CMA Horizon Award and also performed “Our Song”, which would go on to become her first No. 1 song the week of December 22, 2007.

Taylor also recorded a holiday album “Sounds of the Season” that was released October 16, 2007 and exclusive to Target stores. While not as successful as her self-titled debut, the album featured both holiday classics such as “Last Christmas”, and songs that she has written herself.

Swift’s second studio album is slated for a fall 2008 release. In a repeat of her debut album, Swift is expected to have at least a co-writing credit on every track; John Rich and Colbie Caillat contributed writing to the album’s early songs, according to Billboard Magazine. On September 21, 2007, Swift launched a campaign to protect children from online predators. Swift has teamed up with Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen to combat internet crimes. The year-long campaign, launched in partnership with the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police, will distribute Internet safety information and materials to parents and students across the state.
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Taylor Swift Tickets – Taylor Swift to Headline Her Very Own Tour

As she continues to ride the Billboard charts, young country star Taylor Swift will embark on another journey-her first headlining tour. Taylor Swift’s tour will kick off in Evansville, Ind. April 23 and, according to http://Billboard.com, will feature multiple costume changes and a fairy tale theme. Swift’s sophomore album Fearless has spent eight straight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and moved 2.4 million since its November 2008 release. The tour will be in support of the album, which is the top seller of 2009 so far with 287,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. Swift will play three one-offs before the tour, including a March 20 show at Houston’s Livestock Show and Rodeo; Kelli Pickler and up-and-comer Gloriana will open all dates. Swift is slated to play fall dates in the U.K. after her run in North America and a trip to Japan is also on the horizon. Last fall Scott Borchetta, president of Swift’s record label Big Machine, commented on Swift’s stint on the road: “It will be super thrilling for her fans in the States to see photos of her in front of Buckingham Palace, downtown Tokyo and then the next time she’s in Cedar Rapids [Iowa] she’ll be that much a bigger star, but still Taylor-approachable.” Check out http://www.stubhub.com/taylor-swift-tickets for Taylor Swift tickets.

Although one might assume she is a southern belle because of her country songs, Taylor Swift actually hails from Reading, Pennsylvania. Swift grew up listening to country artists like Dolly Parton, LeAnn Rimes and Patsy Cline and persuaded her family to relocate to a suburb of the country music Mecca of Nashville when she was just 14 so she could pursue her dreams of stardom. Big Machine Records president Scott Borchetta heard Swift’s demo take and quickly swooped up the fledgling singer. In 2006 Swift’s debut single, “Tim McGraw,” was released, followed by her eponymous debut album. “Tim McGraw” was a breakaway hit and its music video put a face with a name-err, voice-making Swift the biggest up-and-comer on the country scene. Subsequent singles “Our Song” and “Teardrops on My Guitar” were also successful and in 2007 Swift became the youngest artist to win the Songwriter/Artist of the Year award at the Nashville Songwriters Association.

After “Love Story” became her next hit single, Taylor Swift released her sophomore album, Fearless. The singer, who is known for wearing her heart on her sleeve, penned nearly all of the songs on the album and drew from personal experiences such as breakups. Although most teenage girls don’t get the chance to date Joe Jonas, Swift often transforms her diary entries into songs and that is the reason for her relatability. (The middle Jo Bro broke up with Swift in a 25-second phone call so expect a song about the messy breakup to appear on the singer’s next album!) Now 18 years old, Swift has notched six autobiographical songs on the Billboard charts and doesn’t appear to be slowing any time soon! Get your Taylor Swift tickets soon!

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And that’s not all there is to this attractive young woman! Taylor has already earned plenty of awards that comprise of three Grammys.

This Pennsylvania born singer began writing songs at the age of 10. At about the same age she also started attending and partaking in singing events including festivals, public or state fairs and karaoke shows not far from Wyomissing. She’s even said to have won a poetry skills contest when she was in fourth grade. Her entry was titled “Monster In My Closet,” that that covered three pages.

Her primary brush with song writing happened after she learned to play three chords on the guitar, taught to her by a man who repaired computers. Swift penned a song titled “Lucky You,” and followed it with others which she used as therapy to deal with her difficulty fitting in the classroom.

Inspired by country vocalists such as Dolly Parton, Tina Turner, LeAnn Rimes, Shania Twain, Patsy Cline and the Dixie Chicks, Swift, made it to Nashville when she was 11, wishing to strike a record deal based on the demo she’d taped of her performing abilities. Unfortunately, nothing came of that but an introduction to rejection.

Taylor didn’t give in. Soon after her return Swift gained media highlight for her rendition of the national anthem, performed at the US Open tournament. She began using the 12-string guitar by the age of 12 and didn’t stop driving down to Nashville, teaming up with locally known lyricists and writing songs.  By age 14 her father and mother made up their minds to relocate to a suburb in Nashville where Swift was presented a contract with RCA Record at 15, but opted against signing up with them.

Shortly afterwards, Taylor was noticed by  Scott Borchetta who’d recently started a new label – Big Machines Records. She put out her first single titled “Tim McGraw” in 2006. It reached No 6 on the Billboard Country Chart. She released her first album, titled ‘Taylor Swift,’ a couple of months later. It created a massive storm. In two years’ time that album has sold over 3 million copies and recorded downloads of 7.5 million singles.

Her ensuing album, Fearless, debuted approximately two years later in November, 2008. It climbed right to the top of the Billboard 200 Album Chart and made history on several other counts. The stupendous success instigated Taylor to organize her first tour named after Fearless. The Fearless Tour 2009 got rolling on the 23rd of April, 2009 in Evansville, Indiana. It spanned 6 months spanning 50 cities around the world with all shows achieving sold-out status rapidly, making it the most attended and talked about tours in 2009.

After seeing its success Taylor has now announced the second leg entitled the Fearless Tour 2010 which will kick off in Australia in February 2010 and draws to a close on the 2nd of June in North America. Taylor Swift tickets for the Fearless tour are now on sale for all tour dates. Obtain cheap Taylor Swift tickets for providing promo code ” Wizard5 ” at checkout on TicketsWizard.com to get 5% off your concert tickets.

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Taylor Swift will apparently soon change. Talented young musician who predicted would be the queen of country music that would change forever the bow into a movie player.

Taylor Swift, who was born December 13, 1989, is a singer and songwriter of country music. She began her debut through the indie music scene in 2006 with the release of the single Tim McGraw and positioned directly on the U.S. Billboard charts.

She was born in Pennsylvania and lived with her parents and her brother, Austin, in Tennessee. Talent to play music she got from her grandmother, an opera singer and also influenced singer LeAnn Rimes. At the age of 10 years, she has appeared in public and writing song lyrics.

On October 24, 2006, Swift who had the original name Taylor Alison Swift, released an album Taylor Swift. Almost every song on that album she’s written himself. The result, talented young singer’s album sold up to 61,000 copies in its first week. Not long after that, the album won the Billboard Top Country charts.

Swift is also out the album Sound of the Season is released on October 16, 2007. But the album is not selling like the previous album.

In autumn 2008, ‘singer song “Love Story” and “White Horse” was released a second album, Fearless. In three weeks, the album has sold 330,000 copies.
Through the album, Swift received an award at the event to the 44th Academy of Country Music Award category Album of the Year. She also received a crystal trophy Milestone as country music artist with the best sales during the year 2008.

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Taylor Swift: Grammy’s Golden Child

If anything, the recent Grammy Awards ceremony held last January 31, 2010 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California proved the fact that a fresh-faced, twenty-something from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania has really dominated the scene with her brand of country love songs, marking off a new era in country music. With four major awards that she had won that night-edging out more experienced fellow country singers such as Carrie Underwood, LeAnn Womack, Keith Urban and the like, Taylor Swift proved that she is really Grammy’s golden child.

Bursting into the scene in 2006 with her self-titled debut album, Swift steadily acquired a solid fan base as she continued to win fans’ and critics’ approval for her songs, which she mostly wrote herself. In her early days, Swift was initially likened to fellow country singers such as Carrie Underwood and LeAnn Rimes. That is until late November of 2008, when Swift released her phenomenal studio album which debuted at the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 Album Charts, cementing her crossover appeal to both pop and country music fans and effectively stepping out of Underwood’s and Rimes’ shadows. More hit country love songs followed, along with various awards from the CMA, the VMAs, the AMAs, the Billboard Music Awards, the People’s Choice Awards and the Grammys, among many others.

Although she seems like an overnight success to most, things have not always been peachy for the young artist. She did languish for many years before asking popular songwriter Liz Rose to co-write with her when she was an unknown talent at that time. Fortunately, her risks paid off, and from a virtual nobody, she metamorphosed into one of the most bankable artists of the year, crossing over from country to pop and dominating both charts throughout 2009.

In one of the most touching moments of the night, in her acceptance speech for winning the Best Country Album award for “Fearless,” said, ‘“This is my first time walking up those stairs to accept a Grammy on national television. I just keep thinking back to like when you’re in second grade and you sing at your talent show for the first time. People joke around and they say, ‘Oh maybe we’ll see you at the Grammys someday.’ But that seems like an impossible dream,” she enthused, “And I just feel like I’m standing here accepting an impossible dream right now and I just thank you so much for that.”

Of course, throughout the night, her acceptance speeches remained uninterrupted unlike last year’s MTV VMA fiasco, during which she was rudely interrupted by Kanye West. As the rest of the Awards ceremony unfolded, Swift dazzled and shined, winning a total of four awards including trophies for Album Of The Year, Best Female Country Vocal Performance, Best Country Song, and Best Country Album. Her wins were no easy achievements as she beat out more experienced country singers such as Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride, Underwood and Lee Ann Womack for Best Female Country Vocal Performance; as well as Trace Adkins, Jamey Johnson, Lady Antebellum and Billy Currington for Best Country Song; Zac Brown Band, George Strait and Keith Urban for Best Country Album; and Beyoncé Knowles, The Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga and the Dave Matthews Band for the most important award for the night, Album of the Year.