On Saturday (Mar 2), pop superstar Taylor Swift kicked off her first show at the National Stadium to 50,000 screaming fans and
Besides bragging rights for being the only Eras Tour stop in Southeast Asia; Singapore has a connection to the singer that goes way back.
A little-known fact that the 34-year-old highlighted back in 2014 was how her mum spent part of her growing up years on our little red dot when the family moved here due to her father’s work.
This time, Taylor shed light on her family’s past as she played the opening chords to ‘Marjorie’, a song dedicated to her maternal grandmother Marjorie Finlay, from her Evermore era.
Marjorie passed away in 2003 at the age of 74, a year before Taylor signed her first record deal at 14.
“My mum actually spent a lot of her childhood with her mum, dad, and sister growing up in Singapore,” she revealed, drawing gasps of surprise from the crowd at the National Stadium.
“So a lot of the time when we came here on tour, my mum would take me and drive past her old house and where she used to go to school, and so, I’ve been hearing about Singapore my whole life.”
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