How old was Taylor Swift when she released her first album?
Taylor Swift was 14 when she moved to Nashville to pursue a career in music. By the time she was 16, she released her debut album.
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Taylor Swift was 14 when she moved to Nashville with her family to pursue a career in music. By the time she was 16, she had released a self-titled debut album that was full of promise and which set her on the road to stardom.
Swift was a music-obsessed teenager. She was heavily influenced by her late grandmother Marjorie, a former opera singer, and learned to play the guitar by copying a Dixie Chicks song.
“I grew up on country music, especially Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton,” she said. “At an early age, I would perform their songs around my hometown, at festivals, fairs, and karaoke contests.”
Released on October 24, 2006, her debut album was full of the energy and obsessions of youth. Particularly shrewd was her decision to work with an experienced songwriter Liz Rose, who helped sharpen her youthful ideas.
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They co-wrote seven of the 11 songs on the album, including Swift’s first hit single, “Tim McGraw.”
Rose, who was then in her early 40s, is the mother of country singer Caitlin Rose. While Swift had written her first song when she was only 12 – the autobiographical “The Outside,” which also appeared on her debut album – Rose was a late bloomer.
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According to Caitlin, her former bank-worker mother “didn’t start writing until she was 40, not even a poem. It was sort of an accident.”
