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The Taylor Swift Education Centre opened at Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in 2013. ST PHOTO: BHAGYASHREE GAREKAR
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee – When Taylor Swift moved to America’s Music City, she was a teen with dreams. Very soon, the dreams grew until Nashville could no longer contain them.

Within a decade of her chart-topping country music debut album in 2006, she switched to pop. Her tent broadened to include audiences across the spectrum and she morphed into a music juggernaut.

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