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American Evolution 2024

Taylor Swift vs Trump: Can America’s sweetheart move needle for Biden?

From conservative cores to cosmopolitan corridors, hollowed-out heartlands to cloud economies, follow US Bureau Chief Bhagyashree Garekar on a journey across the United States ahead of its presidential election in November. 

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NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb 20, 2024: The Taylor Swift Education Centre opened at Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in 2013. Swift has said she owes her success as a songwriter and performer to her musical education and exposure. She donated US$4 million to the museum for the centre which includes classrooms, exhibition space and interactive activities.

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The Taylor Swift Education Centre opened at Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in 2013.

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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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