7 things you didn't know about Taylor Swift.

Bursting onto the music scene at age of 18 in 2006, Swift quickly sky-rocketed to be a household name with her first self titled album.

But it was the release of her second album ‘Fearless’ in 2008 that really got the music world to notice her, and gave her the title of the youngest person ever, at just 20, to win a Grammy for Album of the Year.

In 2009 Swift broke another record, becoming the first Country Music artist to win an MTV Music award for best female video, which rapper Kanye West infamously interrupted. Does the line: ‘Yo Taylor – Imma let you finish’ ring a bell? From here, Taylor has gone on to win an array of awards, including seven Grammys, six Country Music Awards, 11 American Music Awards and many, many others.

Impressed? Well that’s not even half of it…

‘T. Swizzle,’ as she affectionately known by her fans, is also building up an her acting career. In 2010, Taylor appeared in the A-List movie Valentines Day and went on to voice the character of Audrey in the animated film The Lorax in 2012, alongside teen heart throb Zac Efron.

She’s been romantically linked to celebrities; Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Mayer, Conor Kennedy and Harry Styles. Even though Taylor’s relationships never seem to last that long (C’mon people she’s only 23!) they have prompted many, many hit singles that touch on everything from breakups, to bullying and unrequited love, to love stories – think ‘Dear John’, ‘I knew you were trouble’ and the breakup anthem, ‘We are never ever getting back together’.

This one was reportedly written about Jake Gyllenhaal:

7 things you didn’t know about Taylor Swift:

1. She grew up on a Christmas Tree farm.

2. Wrote her hit song Love Story on her bedroom floor in 20 minutes.

3. She counts Selena Gomez and Emma Stone as friends.

4. Taylor was the first ‘Saturday Night Live’ host to ever write their own monologue.

5. Her grandmother was an Opera Singer.

6. When she was twelve, she spent her summer writing a 350-word novella.

7. She taught herself to play guitar. Well, we guess that one paid off.