Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania.[1] Her father, Scott Swift, is a Merrill Lynch financial adviser.[2][3] He was raised in Pennsylvania and is the descendant of three generations of bank presidents.[1][4] Her mother, Andrea (née Gardner), is a homemaker who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive.[1][5] Andrea spent the first ten years of her life in Singapore, before settling in Texas; her father was an oil rig engineer who worked throughout Southeast Asia.[4][6] Swift was named after singer James Taylor; her mother believed a gender-neutral...
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