“I was 11 years old when I discovered my passion for music, but life became challenging when my dad left, leaving me alone with my mom.”

“I was 11 years old when I discovered my passion for music, but life became challenging when my dad left, leaving me alone with my mom.”

With all this talk about Taylor Swift’s birth year (1989, in case you are currently stuck behind a rock), we’re reminded again and again that she’s only 24 years old. And just 11years ago, she was a 12-year-old singing the national anthem at a Detroit Pistons game in her home state of Pennsylvania. This is what it looked like:

“I was 11 years old when I discovered my passion for music, but life became challenging when my dad left, leaving me alone with my mom.”