As Taylor Swift wins more awards, we look at the family who helped her get there

Just another day at the office for Taylor Swift as she is honoured with even more awards at the iHeart Radio Music Awards. The pop superstar is currently touring the world on her ‘Era’s tour' and took a quick pit-stop to attend the award ceremony in LA. The singer won the award for Best Song with her hit Anti-Hero. Taylor was also honoured with the Innovator award and in her acceptance speech she joked that she never woke up thinking she would “innovate some stuff.” The Reputation songstress looked sensational in her sparkly couture hooded jumpsuit by Alexandre Vauthier.

The Shake-It-Off singer started singing when she was just 10-years-old and has collected over 300 awards in her career so far. But if it wasn’t for her supportive family who knows what the singer would be doing today?

Taylor’s parents Scott and Andrea Swift have been the singer's biggest supporters. After Taylor landed her first major record deal at 14, her parents moved from their home in Pennsylvania - with both children Taylor and younger brother Austin - to Nashville. 

Her parents married in 1988 and had Taylor a year later. They wanted to give her a unisex moniker as they had a business career in mind for their daughter. Taylor told Rolling Stone “My mom thought it was cool that if you got a business card that said 'Taylor' you wouldn't know if it was a guy or a girl." Taylor’s parents divorced in 2011 but continue to support their children and their dreams. 

Taylor's father is Scott Kingsley Swift . Like his father and grandfather before him, Scott entered into the financial business world and became a stockbroker.  He relocated his business to Nashville to help Taylor pursue her dreams of becoming a singer and he works as a top advisor and First Vice President in the company. She has thanked her parents in many of her acceptance speeches once saying: “This is for all those times that you said I could do whatever I wanted in life.” Scott is known for giving out guitar picks to Taylor's fans and has featured in a few of her music videos. 

Andrea Gardner Swift is Taylor's mum - Andrea’s mother Marjorie Finlay had her own television show and was a famous opera singer. Taylor’s mother Andrea is often spotted by her daughter's side and has also featured in her music videos. In 2015 Andrea was diagnosed with cancer, she did go into remission, but Taylor revealed in an Elle US essay that the cancer came back in 2019. The song “Soon You’ll Get Better“, on the Lover album is written about Taylor’s emotions and events during her mother's battle with cancer. Both of Taylor’s parents feature in her Miss Americana documentary and touch upon her mother’s battle with cancer. 

Taylor’s brother Austin Swift is two years younger than her and has carved his own career path in acting and producing. Austin interned at LionsGate Entertainment Corporation. He has been a producer on Taylor’s music video for ‘I Bet You Think About Me’ and was an executive producer for the ‘Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions’. Austin acted in the film Live by Night starring Ben Affleck and Cover Versions.