Taylor Swift Makes Big Tennessee Move

She's donating $1M to tornado relief
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Mar 5, 2020 4:32 PM CST
Taylor Swift Makes Big Tennessee Move
This Nov. 24, 2019 file photo shows Taylor Swift at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles.   (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Taylor Swift is donating $1 million to tornado relief efforts in Middle Tennessee, where deadly storms ravaged counties this week, including in Nashville, the AP reports. In an Instagram post made Thursday, Swift said “Nashville is my home.” She added that “the fact that so many people have lost their homes and so much more in Middle Tennessee is devastating to me.” She included a link to the Middle Tennessee Emergency Response Fund. The statewide death toll was 24. A spokesperson for the pop singer confirmed the donation.

A monstrous tornado tore a 2-mile-long path through Putnam County early Tuesday, killing 18 people, including five children under 13. Another 88 were injured, some critically. Another powerful storm barreled eastward from Nashville along a 50-mile path, killing five; another storm-related death occurred in a county west of Nashville.

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