Marjorie Finley
Historical figure
American · 20th century
Colorado-based opera singer (soprano) who, after winning a talent contest in 1950, toured on the ABC radio network show "Music with the Girls." Taylor Swift's maternal grandmother. Died in 2003 when Taylor was approximately thirteen.
Connection to Taylor Swift
The biographical subject of "marjorie" (evermore, 2020). Named directly in the lyric ("Watched as you signed your name, Marjorie"). Her actual operatic vocal recordings appear as backing vocals on the song's production. Her unfulfilled opera-career ambitions are the song's central conceit, "all your closets of backlogged dreams / and how you left them all to me", read by the hosts as creative inheritance passed from grandmother to granddaughter.
Notable Works
- Opera singer and Taylor Swift's maternal grandmother (her mother Andrea's mother); the subject of "marjorie".