Taylor Swift: The Debut Years

“It was so obvious she had something. You know, she was 13, and she had that sparkle. So much sparkle dust around her,” - Renee Bell, head of A&R at RCA Records

Meet Taylor, 2003. She's a teen who came to Nashville with blisters on her fingers from learning to play a 12-string guitar. In every room she enters, she’s the youngest person (by decades) and often the only woman. And if anyone asked if she could see herself becoming the biggest superstar on the planet, her answer probably would h...