Hi, I'm Taylor.

I started writing songs when I was 13 after getting a guitar for Christmas and hearing Ed Sheeran's first album. At the time, it was a way to process things I didn't know how to say out loud, and that hasn't really changed. I've always been drawn to honest songwriting — the kind that says something real without over explaining it. Early on I was listening to a mix of Taylor Swift, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Marley, which probably explains why melody and feeling have always been just as important to me as the words.

As soon as I could get my driving licence, I left the countryside of Millisle and started playing regularly in Bangor after picking up my first residency, sometimes performing three or four nights a week. I would drive from bar to bar across County Down with my guitar, playing anywhere that would have me. That's where I really learned how to perform — just figuring it out in real time and building a connection with people in the room. I loved gigging early on and hanging out in pubs and clubs with all those lovely and supportive hooligans, and I still feel very rooted in that. Since then I've sold out one of Bangor's biggest venues, The Court House, for three years in a row, and part of that audience is made up of people I've grown up around and performed for — which means a lot to me.

During lockdown in 2020, I started a weekly livestream series called Living Room Live. It was simple, but it created a real sense of connection at a time when everything felt quite distant. It opened things up beyond my local audience, and my music reached people further afield. Shoutout to my Michigan fan club. It grew into something much bigger than I expected, and a lot of that audience are still part of what I do now. There's no way I'd want to do this without them.

Over the years I've spent time in Dublin, London, Brighton and Nashville, studying, writing, collaborating and performing. Those years weren't always straightforward, but they shaped how I write and how I view life. I studied songwriting at BIMM Brighton, and around that time I started to feel more confident in my voice as an artist.

I've had the chance to support artists including Turin Brakes, Teddy Thompson, Joachim Cooder and Mary Coughlan on their Irish tours, and I was invited to be Artist in Residence at Belfast's Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival. My debut album was nominated for Album of the Year at the Northern Ireland Music Prize 2025, which meant a lot — especially being recognised alongside big artists from here like Joshua Burnside, Snow Patrol and Van Morrison.

More recently, I've been working on new music with producers Ian Barter (Amy Winehouse, Dermot Kennedy, Paloma Faith) and Dan Myers (Tom Grennan, Lusaint). It's a step into something bigger, and I'm excited about it.

At the end of the day, I want my songwriting to tell the truth of the human story. We're perfectly flawed, hilariously contradictory and easy to love in my opinion — and I want nothing more than to sing those songs back to them in masses.