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Her father, Scott Swift, is a stockbroker; her mother, Andrea Swift, is a homemaker who previously worked as a fund marketing executive; and her brother, Austin, is an actor. Swift spent her early years on a Christmas tree farm with her parents. At age 9, Swift started taking vocal and acting lessons in New York City and later decided to shift her focus toward country music, inspired by Shania Twain and Faith Hill.

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When the rising star was around 12 years old, a computer repairman named Ronnie Cremer taught her to play guitar and helped with her first efforts as a songwriter, leading Taylor to write "Lucky You", her first song ever. With it, came the opportunity to attend meetings with major record labels. To help Taylor's break into country music, her father transferred his job to an office in Nashville when she was 14, and the family relocated to a lakefront house in Hendersonville, Tennessee, where Taylor attended high school.

Two years later, she transferred to Aaron Academy to better accommodate her touring schedule through homeschooling. She graduated high school a year early because of that. In Nashville, Taylor started working with songwriter Liz Rose during two-hour writing sessions every Tuesday afternoon after school. She believed she was running out of time because she wanted to capture the early years of her life on an album while it still represented what she was going through.

At a showcase in Nashville's Bluebird Cafe in , Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a record executive who was preparing to form an independent record label, Big Machine Records. She became one of Big Machine's first signings, with her father purchasing a three percent share of the company.

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Taylor then started working on her debut album and persuaded Big Machine to hire Nathan Chapman to produce her songs. It peaked at number 5 on the US Billboard , where it spent weeks. Throughout and , Taylor released four more singles from her debut album and all of them appeared on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.