to do something completely different than what they were trying to do, but all of a sudden the friends were gone. singing became her salvation in these painful years. she poured her heart into her music and relentlessly lobbied her mother to take her to music row. when i was 11, i came to nashville and just kind of knocked on doors of record labels. my mom was, like, waiting in the car. i had this little demo karaoke cd and would walk into every major record label and was like, hey, i m taylor, i m 11, i want a record deal, call me. the phone never rang. but taylor didn t stop. she mastered the guitar as seen here in her 2010 concert doc, then wrote and recorded her first song. angels above you so far away hey lucky you, she wrote it the day she learned how to play