The man who taught Taylor Swift country music and how to play the guitar was a rock musician and a computer tech, The New York Daily News has learned.
Ronie Cremer from Reading, Pa. said he only met Swift in 2002 when he had a computer shop in Leesport where he also had his little studio. His brother who had a theater company introduced Swift, her brother and her mother to him.
"I said, 'I don't know if I can teach country music. I don't know the first thing about country music. I know rock music," Cremer recalled when he was asked to teach Swift how to play country music. "But eventually we did get together. They came out to my place once, but from there on in we met at her house in Wyomissing."
From there, the two continued working two evenings a week. Cremer revealed he charged Swift $32 per hour at the time. He said, "It went from teaching her guitar, to teaching her how to structure songs."
When she visited the Kiis FM breakfast show, Swift said her "1989" album comes from "a place of strength but subtly, it's not like, 'I'm a strong independent woman' but you can kind of feel that as an undercurrent throughout the record."
"I've been basically living my life on my own terms," the "Blank Space" and "Shake It Off" hit maker said.
Currently, Swift's "Blank Space" is at number two in the Billboard 100 list after it was dethroned by Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk" featuring Bruno Mars.