It appears there’s an invisible string that ties megastar Taylor Swift to the little red dot. The Grammy Award-winning singer kicked off the first of six sold-out concerts for the Singapore leg of The Eras Tour on Saturday (Mar 2).
If you were there or had read reviews of the first night’s show, you would know that after she sang Marjorie from her album Evermore, she related the story of her mother Andrea growing up in Singapore together with Swift’s grandmother, the titular Marjorie.
While the Anti-Hero singer has brought up her Singapore connection in past interviews, more information has now been unearthed.
Widely considered to be one of her more poignant tracks, Marjorie is a tribute to Swift’s late maternal grandmother, opera singer Marjorie Finlay, who died in 2003. Besides featuring bits of advice Finlay gave to Swift, the song also incorporates samples of Finlay’s operatic vocals.
Swift said: “I’ve been hearing about Singapore all my life. To get to come here and play a show this big… it means the world.
“A lot of the time when we came here on tour, my mum would take me and drive me past her old house and where she used to go to school…”