Music

Taylor Swift

Her family moved to Nashville and bought into her label; she later rerecorded her catalog to own it.

Born: 1989 · West Reading, Pennsylvania, US
Roots: White American; Scottish and German descent
Family: Affluent; Merrill Lynch financial-adviser father, marketing-executive mother; raised on a Christmas-tree farm the family owned.
Education: High school (finished via homeschooling after moving to Nashville)
Started with: Family backing; Her father relocated the family for her career and bought a 3% stake in her startup label.
Affiliations & societies: None documented.; Information only — claims like these are often unverifiable and may be wrong.

The pathway

2003 · age 13
RCA development deal
Walks away when the label wants to shelve her until adulthood.
2004 · age 14
Family moves to Nashville
Her father transfers to Merrill Lynch's Nashville office for her career.
2005 · age 15
Signs with Big Machine3% stake
A startup label; her father buys a 3% stake.
2008 · age 19
Fearless
Becomes the best-selling album of the following year; youngest Album of the Year Grammy winner at the time.
2019 · age 29
Masters dispute
Big Machine and her first six albums' masters are sold; she announces she will rerecord them.
2023 · age 33
Eras Tour$1B+ tour
The first concert tour to gross over $1B.
2023 · age 34
Billionaire status$1.1B
Per Bloomberg and Forbes — primarily from music and touring rather than side businesses.

Sources

Compiled from these references and contemporaneous press reporting. Figures are approximate; verify before relying on them.