Taylor Ware

{{short description|American singer-songwriter}}

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| background = solo_singer

| birth_name = Taylor Marie Ware

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1994|9|17}}

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| origin = Franklin, Tennessee, U.S.

| instrument = Violin (from an early age), guitar, vocals

| genre = Country

| occupation = Singer

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Taylor Marie Ware (born September 17, 1994) is an American singer and yodeler from Franklin, Tennessee.

Before Ware knew how to yodel, she performed at a county fair at age four.{{cite news |title=Girl hopes to yodel her way to $1 million |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2006/aug/16/girl-hopes-to-yodel-her-way-to-1-million/ |access-date=30 June 2021 |work=The Spokesman-Review |agency=Associated Press |date=August 16, 2006}} Her talent was singing and playing a fiddle. When she was six she decided to sing to seniors, so she started an Adopt-a-Grandparent program. She taught herself to yodel from an audiotape and instruction book when she was seven years old, after going to a music convention with country singer Naomi Hills.{{cite news |last1=Stroud |first1=Rob |title=Young yodeler's career began at fair |url=https://jg-tc.com/news/young-yodelers-career-began-at-fair/article_1c2c3aac-8744-50e1-aede-2f830c182a51.html |access-date=30 June 2021 |work=Journal Gazette & Times Courier |date=June 26, 2008}}

In 2003, at age 9, Ware won $10,000 in the Yahoo! Yodel Challenge and the Sonic Search for a Star.{{cite news |last1=Yancey |first1=Jessy |title=Hometown rallies around 11-year-old yodeler |url=http://www.williamsonherald.com/news/hometown-rallies-around-11-year-old-yodeler/article_f6c6f6d4-929f-5adf-a450-5504472269f1.html |access-date=30 June 2021 |work=Williamson Herald |date=August 2, 2006 |quote=Updated Apr 7, 2014}} She was later featured in a Yahoo commercial.{{cite web |title=TAYLOR WARE - YAHOO YODEL Commercial |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSTtG1qYams |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/ZSTtG1qYams |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|website=YouTube | date=3 September 2007 |access-date=30 June 2021}}{{cbignore}} She also participated in a challenge to beat a Guinness world record. Ware performed on the Grand Ole Opry with Riders in the Sky when she was nine years old.

When Ware was nine, she was given a dog as a gift by Wayne Brady after she appeared on his now defunct television show, The Wayne Brady Show. She named the dog Brady after him.

Ware honed her yodeling skills while taking lessons from country music star Margo Smith who is known worldwide as the Tennessee Yodeler.

At age eleven, she competed on NBC's America's Got Talent and advanced to the final competition (which aired on August 16, 2006). She was one of the top three finalists{{cite news |last1=Espenshade |first1=Linda |title=Young talent makes big impression on behalf of yodeling |url=https://lancasteronline.com/features/young-talent-makes-big-impression-on-behalf-of-yodeling/article_a9dbce46-a379-5019-b765-80d7e1b8f4f0.html |access-date=30 June 2021 |work=LancasterOnline |date=September 18, 2006 |quote=Updated Sep 11, 2013}} but she lost to 11-year-old Bianca Ryan, the million-dollar winner and two runners up, The Millers and All That. Ware was an opening act at the Liberty Bowl for singer LeAnn Rimes in Memphis, Tennessee on December 29, 2006, performing the national anthem.

Ware released her self-titled debut album in 2004. In 2007, she released her second album, titled America's Yodeling Sweetheart.{{cite news |last1=Tatko-Peterson |first1=Ann |title='America's Got Talent' finalists: Who's found success? |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2009/09/11/americas-got-talent-finalists-whos-found-success/ |access-date=1 July 2021 |work=The Mercury News |date=September 11, 2009}}

She appeared in an episode of Laguna Beach as herself.[http://www.tv.com/taylor-ware/person/452052/summary.html?q=Taylor%20Ware&tag=search_results;more;0 Taylor Ware - TV.com] She also has appeared in commercials for Beech Bend Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Ware's younger brother, Harrison, is also a singer and yodeler. He has performed onstage at the Tennessee State Fair.