Taylor Swift might be known as the American singer, but her ancestry is actually full of surprises.
The 36-year-old pop superstar is not only connected to one of the greatest poets, Emily Dickinson, through their shared lineage, but she also has Italian roots.
While the 14-time Grammy winner has never spoken publicly about her Italian origins, fans on social media accessed her ancestry documents that revealed that Swift’s great-great-grandfather immigrated from Italy to Philadelphia.
The documents quickly began to circulate all over social media and, in the simple words of one fan, “it appears that Taylor’s great-great-grandfather, at the age of 14, moved from a town 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 moved to Tennessee to feed her passion for music.
