Taylor Swift may be known as America’s singer, but her ancestry is actually full of surprises.
The 36-year-old pop superstar is not only related to one of the greatest poets Emily Dickinson through their shared lineage, but she also has Italian roots.
Although the 14-time Grammy Award winner has never spoken publicly about her Italian heritage, fans on social media accessed her ancestry documents which revealed that Swift’s great-great-grandfather emigrated to Philadelphia from Italy.
The documents quickly began making the rounds on social media and, as one fan put it simply, “it appears that Taylor’s great-great-grandfather, at the age of 14, moved from a village in Cilento, Campania (the same region as Naples in southern Italy) to Philadelphia and settled there. His last name was Baldi.”
Years and years later, Swift was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and her family later moved to Tennessee to nurture her passion for music.
