I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

• Born Taylor Alison Swift on Dec. 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania.

• At age 16, Taylor Swift scored her first Top 40 hit with "Tim McGraw," a song featured on her 2006 eponymous debut album. Swift’s 2008 studio album, Fearless, was her first No. 1 album and spawned the Top 5 crossover hit "Love Story."

• Swift is the first and only artist to win the GRAMMY for Album Of The Year four times: Midnights (2024), Folklore (2021), 1989 (2016), and Fearless (2010).

• The singer/songwriter made her GRAMMY performance debut at the 51st GRAMMY Awards in 2009, performing "Fifteen" with Miley Cyrus.

• When she was 10, Swift penned the poem "Monster In My Closet," which won a national poetry contest.

• The GRAMMY Museum debuted The Taylor Swift Experience in 2014. The exhibit featured handwritten lyrics, photographs, a banjo she played onstage at the 54th GRAMMY Awards, and one of her GRAMMY Award statues.