Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a Merrill Lynch financial adviser. Her mother, Andrea , is a homemaker Andrea spent the first ten years of her life in Singapore. Her father was an oil rig engineer who worked throughout Southeast Asia. When Swift was nine years old, the family moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania,where she attended West Reading Elementary Center and Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School. Swift summered at her parents' waterfront vacation home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey and has described it as the place "where most of my childhood memories were formed.