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Where is Taylor Swift from?

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Taylor Swift was born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1989. When she was 13, her parents sold their family farm in Pennsylvania and moved to Hendersonville, Tennessee, so she could pursue a career in country music in nearby Nashville. In 2026, during her induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Swift thanked her parents for their support and said, “It couldn’t have been easy for my parents and my brother to just pick up and move our entire family from Pennsylvania to relocate to Nashville so that I could hone my craft in the songwriting capital of the world. But after it became obvious that this was not even remotely a temporary phase their teen daughter was going through, they uprooted their entire lives to move me to Music City.”