Taylor Swift Biography

The Taylor Swift biography begins on December 13, 1989 when she was born in Wyomissing, PA. Her father was a stock broker and her mother stayed at home with Taylor and her younger brother Austin.

Her first taste in fame came in third grade when she won a national poetry competition with a three page poem called "Monster in My Closet." Poetry morphed into songwriting and by age 10, she was writing songs, singing in karaoke contests, and performing at various festivals and fairs.

She was picked up by the sketch comedy group TheaterKids Live! But the mother of the show's producer, Kirk Cremer, saw her sing Karaoke at a cast party and suggested that she would have even more success as a singer rather than an actress or comedian.

Cremer rented venues such as mall space and also lined Swift up to perform in various contests.

When she was 11, Swift traveled to Nashville to hand out copies of her work to country music producers. She was rejected by the producers and ridiculed by her peers. But she was not deterred.

She went back to Pennsylvania and learned the 12 string guitar. She continued to travel to Nashville to stay connected with the producers she had met. To minimize the travel, when she was 14, the whole Swift family moved to the Nashville suburbs.

This finally paid off when Scott Borchetta signed her to his new production company Big Machine Records.

She released her first single in 2006. By the end of that year, she released a self-titled album "Taylor Swift" which debuted at no. 19 on the Billboard chart. It also spent 8 consecutive weeks on top of the Country Music chart. All of the songs on the album were either written or co-written by Taylor.

She is one of the 10 most visited musical artists on MySpace and is also the top rated country artist on that site.

While she has a lot of life ahead of her, that is the Taylor Swift biography to date.

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Justin Bieber Biography

Justin Bieber is the hot, hot singing sensation that's way ahead of his time - and peers. According to Justin Bieber, he doesn't have a girlfriend right now and is enjoying the perks of a single life of a sixteen year old guy. This is despite of the fact that millions of teenage girls in the US, Canada, and Australia would love to be Mrs. Bieber. Just last month, the heart-throb caused such a mob prior to his Australian concert that several girls went to the hospital. Most just hyperventilated - got way over excited, but one actually injured her foot in the stampede. Seems fans started pushing before the concert when a rumor went out that Justin Bieber had arrived early. Cops in Australia had to actually cancel the concert before it started because the scene was way out of control.

Justin Bieber Biography - How Beiber Was Discovered

Justin Bieber was initially discovered by his agent by singing on YouTube.com. The agent quickly arranged for Beiber to fly to Georgia to meet with up with no other than Usher. Only a short time later, the sixteen year old star, born on March 1st, had two top tens on YouTube. He signed with Island Records. Anyone who's listened to his songs knows he is well ahead of other male singers his own age!

Not only does Justin Beiber sing, but the phenom also plays the keyboards, piano, guitar, drums and trumpet. More amazingly, Justin was self-taught - a true natural born talent (and hottie). His first single, "One Time" reached 12 on the Canadian billboard charts and is moving up on the Billboard Top 100. He did a radio tour to promote his single and his debut album released in November 2009.

Bieber presented an award to Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards in 09.. He also accompanied Swift on her UK tours in order to promote Bieber's music. He also starred on MuchMusic in Canada on several occasions and he has also performed several songs on the Today Show for U.S.

For more about him, you can check out YouTube and the other Justin Bieber Biography article in author resource box.

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