CONCERT EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Swift

Author: Faith-Ann Young
Posted on: Thursday October 22, 2009 at 9:00 AM

Top 10 Quick Facts about Taylor Swift:

1) Taylor was born in Pennsylvania – but at 14 to moved to the suburbs of the country music hub, Nashville.

2) She started writing songs at 11 and started playing the guitar at 12 (To put that in perspective, she’s 19 now.)

3) She was a straight "A" student in school – before being home-schooled to focus on her music career.

4) Her favorite color? White.

5) Her favorite guitar: Taylor Guitars (can you guess why? :) )

6) Her Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius - known to have qualities such as a positive outlook on life and have energy, enterprise and versatility.

7) In 2008, she was the most searched musical artists on Myspace in 2008 and THE top selling U.S. artist. As for 2009, Forbes listed her as #69 in their Celebrity Top 100 for 2009 and since "Fearless" went Triple Platinum, she's re-releasing a Platinum edition of "Fearless" on October 27th (in one wk folks!)

8) She has used some really cool technology promotions during her summer tour - hosting text competitions with fans to win tickets - and enabling winning fans to "perform" onstage with her using green-screen video technology.

9) She's a JT fan - having played JT covers on her summer tour (See a fan's video footage of her piano cover of "What goes around comes around" HERE.)

10) Like Justin, she's gonna be hosting Saturday Night Live on Nov 7^th. In response to questions about whether she'll make a Kayne-related joke (since he infamously interrupted her acceptance speech at the VMAs), she hinted "There are definitely some hilarious things that have happened to me over the past couple of months that I think will be pretty substantial skits." according to AP.

Got any other fact suggestions? Let us know!

(Facts from Billboard, Universal Music, Astrology.com, GAC, Wikipedia.)

TAYLOR SWIFT AND JUSTIN BACKSTAGE AT CONCERT

Taylor chats and poses with Justin backstage:

(Photos by Frank Micelotta)

Justin was happy to have Taylor Swift perform on-stage at the Justin Timberlake And Friends Concert. Meanwhile, Taylor has been getting manifold support these days from both fans and artists. Case in point? Prior to the show, when asked who he was excited to see perform amongst the acts (including TLC, Snoop Dogg, and Alicia Keys), performer/producer Timbaland responded: "Taylor Swift. She's my girl!."

PHOTOS OF TAYLOR SWIFT LIVE AT JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE AND FRIENDS CONCERT BENEFITING SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN:

When Taylor Swift came on-stage, Justin joked: "Don't worry, guys, I got security on the sides, so no one can come up and ruin her set." With a big smile on her face, and a shimmering dress under the spotlight, Swift performed "You Belong With Me," "Forever and Always," and "Love Story" - complete with a sparkling diamond studded guitar.